Allie's Staff Picks

L'Impératrice and Fabiana Martone Set the Girls Free on "Danza Marilù"

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PUBLISHED Apr 5, 2024

Much like Franz Ferdinand before them, L'Impératrice's goal is to make music for girls to dance to. Their latest, "Danza Marilù" ...

HEALTH Ratchet Up the Intensity on 'RAT WARS'

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PUBLISHED Dec 7, 2023

One of Exclaim!'s Best Albums of 2023, HEALTH's RAT WARS is packed from snout to tail with brutality and vulnerability, its 12 tracks drape...

Shay Lia Is All About Opulence on 'FACETS'

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PUBLISHED Oct 20, 2023

The artist formerly best known for her spirited dancing in Kaytranada's infamous Boiler Room set (and their subsequent team-up on 99.9%'s "...

Brian Jordan Alvarez's "Sitting" Is a Wonderful Thing to Listen To

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PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2023

It's kinda like a nap. It's kinda like something else but it is actually just "Sitting" by TJ Mack (Brian Jordan Alvarez). You may recogni...

Sufjan Stevens's "So You Are Tired" Is a Beautiful Brain Tingler

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PUBLISHED Aug 24, 2023

Some people have model trains, D&D and Magic cards (or maybe it's mukbangs, playthroughs and Pinkydoll these days?). I, as the very patient...

Beams Are Bright and Menacing on 'The Spark in Your Eye'

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PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2023

Moving further away from their folksier-leanings of yore, Toronto's Beams returned in August with their psych-rock-adjacent three-track EP...

Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Palehound's 'Eye on the Bat' Is Wry and Confrontational

PUBLISHED Jul 13, 2023

El Kempner reveals a new side of Palehound on their fourth effort, Eye on the Bat. Where previous albums have taken on a celebratory tone —...

​Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Angelo De Augustine Takes Himself Out of Reality on 'Toil and Trouble'

PUBLISHED Jul 7, 2023

Angelo De Augustine wrote, arranged, recorded, produced and mixed his fourth studio album, Toil and Trouble, himself, employing 27 differen...