Blog: Beats Per Minute

If there’s one thing you can say about New Musical Express it’s that they’re unbelievably consistent. Especially over the past fifteen years or so, the bands that have received the highest degree of hype from the British rag—everyone from The Strokes to The Libertines to Kaiser Chiefs to Arctic Monkeys—sound like they were cut from a very similar cloth: Often jittery post-punk outfits born and bred on Brit-pop that tackle the quirkier facets of (male) modern life. NME champions music made by the people for the people. So it’s no surprise that the latest recipient of [...]