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BPM’s Top 50 Albums of 2024 This year, like every year in music, the cream of the crop is a mosaic of styles, moods, tones and textures. We’ve done our best to crochet it all together into a loving patchwork Enjoy: beatsperminute.com/bpms-top-50-al…

"Charli xcx's Music, Fashion, Film works like one gradual movement, with the topics and images lined like pearls on a string, each song progressing the narrative like chapters in a book" - John Wohlmacher reviews @charli_xcx's RECOMMENDED new album: beatsperminute.com/album-review-c…

BPM Curates: June 2026 Our monthly playlist of the team's essential new songs beatsperminute.com/bpm-curates-ju…

BPM Curates: May 2026 Our monthly playlist of the team's essential new songs Enjoy: beatsperminute.com/bpm-curates-ma…

"there’s a spring in the step of Inferno that places it as the (*deep breath*) pinnacle of Boards of Canada's output to date" Our review of the duo's RECOMMENDED new album: beatsperminute.com/album-review-b…

"Rather than existing as an outlier to contemporary culture, Inferno feels like the most prescient and political work that Boards of Canada have ever produced" Our review of the duo's RECOMMENDED new album: beatsperminute.com/album-review-b…

"Boards of Canada are firmly rooted as documentarians of the ruinous now" - @ToddDedman reviews the duo's RECOMMENDED new album Inferno: beatsperminute.com/album-review-b… Out today on @WarpRecords

"Dua Saleh's Of Earth & Wires mutates across genres with an erratic, brilliant energy that perfectly matches the album's themes" - @marychiney_ reviews @doitlikedua's new album: beatsperminute.com/album-review-d… Out via @ghostly

"Love Is the New Gangsta is a direct rejection of the detached posturing that made him famous" - Our review of 6LACK's new album: beatsperminute.com/album-review-6…

"6LACK proves that choosing emotional transparency over a manufactured cool does not dull an artist's edge; it simply sharpens it into something that can actually cut through the noise" Our review of the rapper's new album Love Is The New Gangsta: beatsperminute.com/album-review-6…

"Love Is the New Gangsta is a significant marker for modern R&B. It takes the moody, detached aesthetic of the late 2010s and forces it to grow up" - @marychiney_ reviews @6LACK's new album: beatsperminute.com/album-review-6…

"Same Fangs is Spencer Krug's most self-referential and reflective album and it adds a layer of depth to his music that invites you in to burrow that little deeper" Our review of the Wolf Parade man's new album: beatsperminute.com/album-review-s…

"Like with previous albums, Spencer Krug continues to nudge himself out of his comfort zone" Our review of the Wolf Parade man's new album Same Fangs: beatsperminute.com/album-review-s…

"Same Fangs continues to carefully nudge at the edges of experimentation Spencer Krug has been introducing for the past few years while also showcasing his deft and mordant skills as a songwriter" - @JohnnySetlist reviews the Wolf Parade man's new album: beatsperminute.com/album-review-s…

BPM Curates: April 2026 Our monthly playlist of the team's essential new songs Enjoy: beatsperminute.com/bpm-curates-ap…

"...Beginning of the End reaffirms Portrayal of Guilt’s metal stance and Hobbesian view, even as the band continue to draw from and integrate diverse approaches" Our review of the trio's new album: beatsperminute.com/album-review-p…

"Portrayal of Guilt are most distinct when King’s vocal savagery is juxtaposed with austere, if still solemn and weighty, and frequently innovative, instrumentation" Our review of the trio's new album ...Beginning of the End: beatsperminute.com/album-review-p…

"…Beginning of the End spotlights Portrayal of Guilt as they persist in their mission to heterogenize trample-and-roar metal" - John Amen reviews @portrayalof's new album: beatsperminute.com/album-review-p… Out on @rfcrecords

Track-By-Track: Miss Grit offers shelter within the architecture of their new album, Under My Umbrella Read their breakdown of each track: beatsperminute.com/track-by-track… Under My Umbrella is out today on @MuteUK

"an artistic, spiritual, and activistic triumph" Our review of Antropoceno's No Ritmo da Terra: beatsperminute.com/album-review-a…

"Antropoceno pulls no punches in her critique of civilization’s ongoing betrayal yet refuses to relinquish her wide-eyed appreciation for beauty" Our review of the Brazilian artist's new album No Ritmo da Terra: beatsperminute.com/album-review-a…