Sudan Archives, Brittney Parks first emerged as a self-taught avant-garde violinist, combining left-field strains of R&B, hip-hop, and experimental electronic music with hypnotic string loops and the fiddling style of West Africa. Sudan Archives will bring The BPM EU/UK ’25 Tour! to The Academy, Dublin on Monday, 8th December 2025.
On THE BPM, Sudan Archives – real name Brittney Parks – embodies the idea that following your own muse is the surest route to artistic and personal fulfilment. If her last two albums looked to the past – she was both goddess and muse on 2019’s Athena, and wrote a punky coming-of-age tale for 2022’s Natural Brown Prom Queen – THE BPMimagines a dazzling, chrome-plated future in which we’re all tapped into our own sense of rhythm. As she sings on the album’s title track and thesis: “The BPM is the power.”
THE BPM looks to Sudan’s mother’s roots in Michigan and her father’s in Illinois; it was partially completed in Chicago and Detroit, embracing the club sounds from those cities while taking in everything from Jersey club to contemporary global dance musics and experimental beatwork. The whole record is a family affair: Parks enlisted her sister, a cousin from Detroit and one of her best friends to assist, and exclusively worked with people she knew intimately for the first time, rather than bringing in producers from outside the fold.
On THE BPM she introduces a new persona: Gadget Girl, a technologically advanced musician who’s exalted by her embrace of technology. “I was never the girl in a band in high school – I could only express myself for the first time when I got my first iPad and started making beats on it, and when I got my first electric violin. I’m all gadget girled out now, but I’ve never felt so free as a human, ” she says.
THE BPM explores themes of mental illness, self-love, technology, romance, and heartbreak even as it embraces a raucous, party-starting energy. It also introduces a more clarified Sudan – an executive producer and artist moving with grace and gonzo confidence through her most fun, freewheeling record yet.
Sudan Archives
The BPM EU/UK ‘25 Tour
Plus Special Guests
Monday, 8th December 2025
The Academy, Dublin
Doors 7pm | 18+
Tickets on sale now.
Tickets from €25.50 (inc booking fee & venue facility fee) from Ticketmaster.ie
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