Kaelen's Staff Picks
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Lost Girls Leave Their Bodies Behind on "Ruins"
PUBLISHED Jul 25, 2023
"Bodies are stupid / Bodies are dumb," Jenny Hval sings at the climax of "Ruins," the first new song since 2021 from Lost Girls, her collab...
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: Arthur Russell Retains His Enigma on Gorgeous 'Picture of Bunny Rabbit'
PUBLISHED Jul 3, 2023
With every posthumous Arthur Russell album — each organized and edited with painstaking care by Russell's longtime partner Tom Lee and Audi...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Blake Mills's "There Is No Now" Is a Perfect Little Universe
PUBLISHED Jun 29, 2023
If "Skeleton Is Walking" — the first single from Blake Mills's upcoming Jelly Road — was the ambling road song, then second taste "There Is...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Sarah Mary Chadwick Is a Force on "Shitty Town"
PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2023
Sarah Mary Chadwick's voice could reduce a house to rubble; if pointed in the right direction, it could shake the leaves from a tree or sen...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Mega Bog Wades Through the Darkness to the Stunning 'End of Everything'
PUBLISHED May 19, 2023
A brilliant and terrifying document of internal turmoil and the spectacles of desire, Mega Bog's seventh album is a forest desiccated by wi...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Nourished by Time's 'Erotic Probiotic 2' Does a Body Good
PUBLISHED May 9, 2023
Nourished by Time's Marcus Brown has the ear — in an age when trendy '80s revivalism has already lived and died a thousand times, Brown's m...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: PJ Harvey's "A Child's Question, August" Is Uninterested in Answers
PUBLISHED May 5, 2023
PJ Harvey abandoned theatrical bombast a long while ago, instead allowing her compositions to swirl and gather like smoke as she moved beyo...
