Articles by Laura Stanley

Justin Wright's Cello Masterwork 'Music for Staying Warm' Started as a Favour for a Friend

PUBLISHED Apr 3, 2019

You may have heard Montreal-based composer Justin Wright play the cello without even realizing it. Though Wright's debut LP, Music for Stay...

Justin Wright

Music for Staying Warm

PUBLISHED Apr 3, 2019

Music for Staying Warm is an antidote to anticipatory anxiety. The debut LP from Montreal composer and cellist Justin Wright — who has work...

'Which Side Are You On? 20th Century American History in 100 Protest Songs' Is Ambitious But Lacks Breadth

By James Sullivan

PUBLISHED Mar 25, 2019

American journalist James Sullivan has an ambitious goal for his latest book Which Side Are You On? 20th Century American History in 100 Pr...

Iron & Wine

Our Endless Numbered Days (Deluxe Edition)

PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2019

In 2002, Sam Beam (Iron & Wine), a soft-spoken father, husband and film professor residing in Florida, released a sparse, lo-fi debut, The...

Lomelda

M for Empathy

PUBLISHED Mar 11, 2019

The music that Hannah Read makes as Lomelda is for quiet spaces. The soft, propulsive folk-rock of her LP Thx, a standout release from 2017...

Patient Hands

Stoic

PUBLISHED Feb 25, 2019

Montreal's Alex Stooshinoff (Patient Hands) wrote his debut full-length, Stoic, immediately after coming out of a dark period. About this t...

Tiny Ruins Transcend Folk, New Zealand and Time Itself on New Album 'Olympic Girls'

PUBLISHED Feb 4, 2019

"It's swelteringly hot here; we're in the future," says Hollie Fullbrook, singer and guitarist of Tiny Ruins, in an Exclaim! phone intervie...

Sharon Van Etten

Remind Me Tomorrow

PUBLISHED Jan 18, 2019

Sharon Van Etten wrote her fifth album, Remind Me Tomorrow, in, as she told Exclaim!, "a delirium of wanting to be creative." The album's s...