Staff Picks

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  Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Ouri and Antoniya Are Twin Telepathics on 'i had this dream that you were my sister'

  PUBLISHED Jun 12, 2023

  "Cunty" is the first word Montreal's Antoniya uses to describe i had this dream that you were my sister — her collaborative EP with fellow...

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  Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Half Moon Run Are Having More Fun Than Ever on 'Salt'

  PUBLISHED Jun 2, 2023

  I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to attend an early listening session for Half Moon Run's Salt back in April, which quickly b...

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  Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Rich Aucoin Gets Celestial on 'Synthetic Season 2'

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2023

  Landing neatly between the worlds of Justice and Dan Deacon, with just a touch of 2010s Dan Snaith, Rich Aucoin's Synthetic Season 2, the s...

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  Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Westelaken's 'I am Steaming Mushrooms' Is Fantastic and Flavourful

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2023

  I owe a great deal of my time in Toronto to Ozzy's Palace, the West end house that shares its name with the 13-minute opening track opening...

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  Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Helena Deland Ponders the Season on "Spring Bug"

  PUBLISHED May 31, 2023

  With a jaunty drum groove and latticework of acoustic arpeggios, Montreal singer-songwriter Helena Deland sweetly evokes the pastoral calm...

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  Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Marci Does What She Does Best with "KITY"

  PUBLISHED May 30, 2023

  Marci knows what she does best. Her first single since last year's excellent debut could have easily been an outtake from it, and that's ju...

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  Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Brasstracks, Kemba and J. Hoard Are Positively Boisterous on "Dance Machine"

  PUBLISHED May 29, 2023

  Whether supporting hip-hop and R&B vocals or laying down dazzling horn-and-drum-driven grooves, Brasstracks instrumentals have never disapp...

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  Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: The Sky's the Limit on jev.'s "Lonrwrld (Freestyle)"

  PUBLISHED May 26, 2023

  jev. introduced himself to the world with tongue-twisting lyricism and the kind of flows that would leave a normal MC breathless on his deb...