Ray Finlayson
Contributor at Beats Per Minute
A musician of sorts. Sometimes he talks in the third person. Available for weddings/funerals.
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2 weeks ago |
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[Sub Pop/Royal Mountain; 2025]Big Dog is a record that tracks a journey, a personal odyssey through turmoil and built up from low points. It’s a document of resilience and hard work that its creator Bria Salmena put in as she shaped the music that mattered to her.
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beatsperminute.com | Ray Finlayson
[Forward Music Group; 2025]How can a musician still communicate when they have nothing else to say? It’s a quandary that Portuguese-Canadian musician Nico Paulo faced as she found herself in a sort of creative limbo. “I was feeling like I had run out of things to say, but I still want to sing to people,” she says of the feeling.
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3 weeks ago |
beatsperminute.com | Ray Finlayson
[Bayonet; 2025]Movement is what draws all of Sarah Kinlaw’s work together. The New York-based multidisciplinary artist creates in ways that explores each field and weaves them all together; her movement is musical and her music is motion. She rejects what she calls “traditional ways of working”, instead opting to create and write in ways that feel right to her body. “Almost every time I dealt with anger around language and writing, my fix was to move,” she explains of her process.
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4 weeks ago |
beatsperminute.com | Ray Finlayson
[XXIM Records; 2025]Blackbirds And The Sun Of October is an album of homecoming. On his fifth album (and first full length for the XXIM label), Italian composer Federico Albanese returned to his home region of Monferrato in Northern Italy, taking inspiration from his autumnal surroundings. “There’s a sense of freedom about returning that seeps into everything you do – including music,” Albanese explains.
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1 month ago |
beatsperminute.com | Ray Finlayson
[Self-released; 2025]Five solo albums in and Jonathan Bates is still making the music he wants to. As Big Black Delta, he deals in blunt, maximalist electropop that caters to his whims. His latest album, ADONAI, is no different; he’s still writing, recording, producing and releasing all by himself. If anything, this time round Bates seems even more carefree and ambiguous when describing his creation process. “[I’m] making music for people while they figure out their own answers to things. Or not.
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