Staff Picks

Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Jahkoy Swaggers Through the Flame on "Man on Fire"
PUBLISHED Jul 17, 2023
After dabbling in Caribbean grooves and melodies on his February album Healing Phase, Jahkoy settles firmly back into the R&B swagger that...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Anti-God Hand Breaks Through on "Barge of Light"
PUBLISHED Jul 14, 2023
Vancouver musician Will Ballantyne wrote the material that would form Blight Year, his forthcoming album as Anti-God Hand, following a summ...
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: Metric's "Just the Once" Is a Giddy Reprieve from Modern Malaise
PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2023
Dance rock is back, haven't you heard? Two decades since their debut, Metric are as groovy as ever — except, rather than the spiky post-pun...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: ANOHNI and the Johnsons 'My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross'
PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2023
ANOHNI's first album in 13 years with her forever-shapeshifting Johnsons is a return home — abandoning the chrome-buffed enormity of 2016's...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Julie Byrne's 'The Greater Wings' Aches with Love and Grief
PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2023
"I drank the air to be nearer to you." That's the first line Julie Byrne sings, atop spectral guitar plucking, on the titular opening track...
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: Sampha's "Spirit 2.0" Is an Artist in Full Flight
PUBLISHED Jul 7, 2023
It isn't as if Sampha's been missing; in the time since his singular, award-winning solo debut Process was released, he's lent a hand to th...