Staff Picks
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: FLOOR CRY's 'Slasher Flick' Slices Through the Horrors of Anxiety
PUBLISHED Jul 6, 2023
Winnipeg's Felicia Sekundiak lives up to her coveted @synthpop Instagram handle on her debut LP as FLOOR CRY. Half new material, half compi...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Katie Tupper's 'Where to Find Me' Locates Her Commanding Vocals
PUBLISHED Jul 5, 2023
The effortless silk of Katie Tupper's vocals shines throughout all five songs on her new EP, Where to Find Me, but perhaps most of all on "...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Jeremy Dutcher Takes an Exciting New Direction with "Ancestors Too Young"
PUBLISHED Jul 4, 2023
"Ancestors Too Young" is not only the first English-language song Jeremy Dutcher has ever released, it's also the first one he ever wrote —...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Arthur Russell Retains His Enigma on Gorgeous 'Picture of Bunny Rabbit'
PUBLISHED Jul 3, 2023
With every posthumous Arthur Russell album — each organized and edited with painstaking care by Russell's longtime partner Tom Lee and Audi...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Summer Walker Vibes Out on the Mellow 'CLEAR 2: SOFT LIFE'
PUBLISHED Jun 30, 2023
Summer Walker's latest offering, CLEAR 2: SOFT LIFE is overflowing with mellow, vibey tracks that exude a delicate blend of swagger and vul...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Blake Mills's "There Is No Now" Is a Perfect Little Universe
PUBLISHED Jun 29, 2023
If "Skeleton Is Walking" — the first single from Blake Mills's upcoming Jelly Road — was the ambling road song, then second taste "There Is...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Mise en Scene Look for a Little Softness on 'Reality Bites'
PUBLISHED Jun 28, 2023
"So what, I'm a girl interrupted?" Mise en Scene's Stefanie Blondal-Johnson snarls in a soft, lived-in way — reminiscent of a well-worn thr...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Lunice 'OPEN'
PUBLISHED Jun 28, 2023
Not to be outdone by TNGHT partner Hudson Mohawke, Lunice has also covered his latest solo album with a fantastical scene not far removed f...