Over the course of her career as Sudan Archives , self-taught violinist and Cincinnati native Brittney Parks has paired her instrument of choice with forward-thinking songcraft in ways that elevate both her instrument and popular music. On her third album The BPM , she takes her fiddle to the club, melding kinetic beats and intricate orchestrations into musically and emotionally complex structures.

“Hello/It’s me/Did you miss me?/Just take this piece/The best of me,” she offers on opening track “Dead” as snares skitter and an ambulance-siren synth wails behind her; she repeats the proposition in a way that transforms it first into a mantra and then into a password of sorts, with one particular repetition unlocking a maelstrom of strings as the keyboards becoming so distorted as to see

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