Staff Picks

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Bratboy Deliver Rock 'n' Roll Mayhem with Precision on 'Bratworld'

  PUBLISHED May 8, 2023

  Guitarist Bella Bébé and bassist Megan Magdelena used to play in the backing band of proggy, poppy post-hardcore songwriter Jo Passed — and...

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  Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: corook and Olivia Barton's "if i were a fish" Finds Depth in the Twee

  PUBLISHED May 5, 2023

  Even if you're not a TikTok user, you probably already can't avoid corook (a.k.a. Corinne Savage) and their (former Exclaim! Staff Pick) pa...

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  Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: PJ Harvey's "A Child's Question, August" Is Uninterested in Answers

  PUBLISHED May 5, 2023

  PJ Harvey abandoned theatrical bombast a long while ago, instead allowing her compositions to swirl and gather like smoke as she moved beyo...

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  Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Alfa Mist Pushes Toward an Even Bolder Future on 'Variables'

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2023

  Around this time last year, I was fortunate to catch a remarkable set by Alfa Mist, who enthralled a Toronto crowd of around 100 with his t...