Staff Picks
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: El Michels Affair & Black Thought Are on Some Other Shit with 'Glorious Game'
PUBLISHED May 17, 2023
To witness Black Thought rap is glorious, in and of itself. No, watching the Roots on Fallon doesn't count: one needs to experience it live...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: cumgirl8 Seek Subversive Change in the Arms of "cicciolina"
PUBLISHED May 16, 2023
cumgirl8 haven't dulled their sparkle on their first single for 4AD. The New York post-punks pay homage to the Italian politician and porn...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: billy woods Keeps His Hot Streak Going with the Kenny Segal-Assisted 'Maps'
PUBLISHED May 15, 2023
billy woods released two of the best rap albums I heard last year (the spring's Aethiopes and the fall's Church), and he keeps his absolute...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Chris LaRocca Hasn't Skipped a Beat with 'perhaps!'
PUBLISHED May 13, 2023
Even though Chris LaRocca hadn't released his own music in over two years before releasing his new EP perhaps!, it's clear that he hasn't s...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Bernice's Lovely 'Cruisin'' Is Fuelled by Feeling
PUBLISHED May 12, 2023
Toward the end of his prolific '70s period, Neil Young recorded a song called "Will to Love," that ended up on 1977's country rockin' Ameri...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Sweeping Promises' "Eraser" Encapsulates Everything They Do Best
PUBLISHED May 11, 2023
Despite the minimal output between their 2020 debut Hunger for a Way Out and now, Sweeping Promises have managed to maintain their momentum...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: La Sécurité's Wiggling "Serpent" Is Reborn with Every Listen
PUBLISHED May 10, 2023
La Sécurité scratch a particular itch for disparate elements brought together in a Boiler Room Set-level moment of transcendence. Something...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Nourished by Time's 'Erotic Probiotic 2' Does a Body Good
PUBLISHED May 9, 2023
Nourished by Time's Marcus Brown has the ear — in an age when trendy '80s revivalism has already lived and died a thousand times, Brown's m...
