Allie's Staff Picks

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...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Rich Aucoin Gets Celestial on 'Synthetic Season 2'
PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2023
Landing neatly between the worlds of Justice and Dan Deacon, with just a touch of 2010s Dan Snaith, Rich Aucoin's Synthetic Season 2, the s...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Lean into Heavy Fantasy with "Gila Monster"
PUBLISHED May 26, 2023
Following their latest foray into thrash metal with 2019's Infest the Rats' Nest, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard returned with a promise...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Sydanie Is a Chameleon on the Infectious "Bubble 4 a Winna"
PUBLISHED May 18, 2023
Toronto hip-hop mom Sydanie's lengthy hiatus is over with her newest single "Bubble 4 a Winna," the lead track from her upcoming debut albu...