Articles by Cam Lindsay

Viet Cong Talk Their Debut LP and the Nature of Winter Music

PUBLISHED Jan 13, 2015

Calgary's Viet Cong had a pretty eventful 2014, playing shows across North America and Europe in support of their reissued Cassette, a seve...

Andy Stott

The Mancunian Candidate

PUBLISHED Dec 15, 2014

Manchester producer Andy Stott is in love with his drum machine. The piece of gear he found on eBay was a major source of inspiration for h...

Exclaim!'s 2014 in Lists:

5 Reasons Owen Pallett Had a Phenomenal Year

PUBLISHED Dec 2, 2014

Whether it's his own solo work, his surrogate family in Arcade Fire, or odd jobs scoring for Taylor Swift, R.E.M., Linkin Park or the New Y...

Beautiful Noise

Eric Green

PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2014

Though the word "shoegaze" is never actually muttered out loud in Eric Green's Beautiful Noise, this long-gestating documentary is essentia...

Andy Stott

Faith in Strangers

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2014

On his earlier releases, Manchester producer Andy Stott mirrored his city's gloomy industrial heritage with dark, clanging sounds immersed...

Andy Stott on How a Drum Machine Changed His Life

PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2014

Manchester producer Andy Stott turned a lot of heads with his 2012 opus, Luxury Problems. That album saw him begin a partnership with his f...

Mark Kozelek

Sings Christmas Carols

PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2014

You could already write a book on the year Mark Kozelek has had. His deadpan persona has left many wondering if all of his controversial re...

Jessie Ware

The Storyteller

PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2014

In September, Jessie Ware had the opportunity to do what every Kate Bush fan had been waiting more than three decades for: to witness the l...