Staff Picks

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  Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: ANOHNI and the Johnsons 'My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross'

  PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2023

  ANOHNI's first album in 13 years with her forever-shapeshifting Johnsons is a return home — abandoning the chrome-buffed enormity of 2016's...

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  Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Julie Byrne's 'The Greater Wings' Aches with Love and Grief

  PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2023

  "I drank the air to be nearer to you." That's the first line Julie Byrne sings, atop spectral guitar plucking, on the titular opening track...

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  ​Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Angelo De Augustine Takes Himself Out of Reality on 'Toil and Trouble'

  PUBLISHED Jul 7, 2023

  Angelo De Augustine wrote, arranged, recorded, produced and mixed his fourth studio album, Toil and Trouble, himself, employing 27 differen...

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  Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Sampha's "Spirit 2.0" Is an Artist in Full Flight

  PUBLISHED Jul 7, 2023

  It isn't as if Sampha's been missing; in the time since his singular, award-winning solo debut Process was released, he's lent a hand to th...

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  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...

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  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 "...

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  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 —...

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  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...