4/2/2024 0 Comments For the damaged coda bpmThank you! And here are our 50 records of 2023. And if you need to chat, never feel bad to reach out. Should you hear blasts in the near distance, we are thinking of you. If it’s cold outside, we hope you soon will be warm. So before we bid you a nice day: thank you for being with us and giving us your time. In fact, 2023 seemed so packed to the hilt with amazing records that we found ourselves unable to include or mention them all – and thus, after long afternoons debating over red wine and hot chocolate, the staff has finished our Top 50 Albums of the Year, reflecting all of our unique tastes, a shining beacon within the midnights of this year, and hopefully one which will allow you to find appreciation for the familiar and unfamiliar music the year had to offer.īut that’s not all: in the coming days, the staff will also release our Honourable Mentions, as well as personal essays, individual charts and playlists to provide you with even more to dig through and experience. Political post-punk found a new, strong voice in the sub-genre of Futurismus, all while singer-songwriters shared their most intimate anxieties, reflecting on a three-year-cycle that felt like a waking dream – one where Billy Corgan released a 33-track Synth-Rock-Opera about cancel culture and Charles Bissell of The Wrens finally released new music! Abstract hip-hop is finally garnering into mainstream appraisal, as the far-reaching discourse surrounding albums by JPEGMAFIA, Armand Hammer, Danny Brown and NoName showed. In times of great upheaval, it’s all the more important to find some sense of stability, and the BPM staff are content to tell you that, no matter how rough this ride or cold the night, we are here for you, with our very own brands of humour, pedantry and poetry, so we can wither this storm together, with all the great music that soundtracks these days.Īnd great music we had indeed! Shoegaze is back, and here to stay definitively, with old heroes returning and innovators on the horizon! From Liv.e to Kelela and Amaarae to Pink Pantheress, modern R’n’B is shaping into one of the most unbound current day genres, debating the private within frameworks of the political and transcending all genre boundaries. Because at this point, even mentioning the utter chaos engulfing the global sphere seems like a retread of the past years in this dastardly decade. If you are reading this: CONGRATULATIONS, you have survived war criminal Henry Kissinger and made it to the end of 2023! And we are glad you did, really.
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