indie-only red vinyl version - Brittney Parks’ tense and virtuosic new album documents a life in motion, blending breakups and rebounds, dancefloor euphoria and everyday anxiety. If The BPM sounds like the sort of album that might actually win over the mainstream, it’s also Sudan’s grittiest release, less pristine than the widescreen Natural Brown Prom Queen. And if that opus was sun-drenched, this is a wintry mix—all the more for its lyrical fantasies of fleeing to Costa Rica and Dubai. The bass is tectonic, the juxtapositions between short-lived melodies stark. Sudan’s violin parts are as rousing as ever, given breadth and texture by members of the Chicago string quartet D-Composed. This dense, claustrophobic album is discomfitingly of the moment: Sudan’s characters sprint through these songs as though movement is a survival tactic, a way to push forward as the world presses down harder than ever.
| A1 | Dead |
| A2 | Come And Find You |
| A3 | Yea Yea Yea |
| B4 | Touch Me |
| B5 | A Bug's Life |
| B6 | The Nature Of Power |
| B7 | My Type |
| C8 | She's Got Pain |
| C9 | David & Goliath |
| C10 | A Computer Love |
| C11 | The BPM |
| D12 | Ms. Pac Man |
| D13 | Los Cinci |
| D14 | Noire |
| D15 | Heaven Knows |
