Most artists with nine full-length albums to their name have either settled into a comfortable groove or slowly fizzled out of relevancy — A...
Along with the unceremonious announcement of the end of beloved Montreal post-punk band Ought in November 2021, the band's vocalist-guitaris...
As we grow, our identities and perspectives can change, but pieces of each meaningful stage of our lives are forever carried with us. These...
Often what makes us love a piece of music is the sense of nostalgia it can bring, the way an artist expresses love or sadness as an admirati...
If there is one artist who understands unfathomable isolation and falling hopelessly lost in one's thoughts, it's Aaron Powell, also known a...
The words "entertainment" and "death" one after another seem like a commentary on society — as if to say our current social media-driven wor...
Wild Pink's first two albums, 2017's self-titled debut and the following year's Yolk in the Fur, are hidden gems — vocalist John Ross had qu...
At the start of the pandemic and amid a breakup, Big Thief's Adrianne Lenker hid out at a cabin in the mountains in western Massachusetts —...
On instrumentals, Adrianne Lenker of Big Thief works through a session of restorative musical therapy, enabling feelings of self-awareness a...
For almost eight years, Montreal's Gulfer have been one of the most prominent math rock bands in a genre that has never been well-represente...
At its core, Lomelda is a project about shyness – that it's okay to feel it, how to embrace it, and laying it all out to be examined in its...
Every few years, Julianna Barwick releases a new album and it's always exactly what one would expect — a cinematic, ambient journey centred...
Little Kid have spent the past decade self-releasing five albums, developing a small but devoted fanbase as songwriter Kenny Boothby began w...
Gia Margaret's second album was not the one she planned to make following her debut There's Always Glimmer, an incisive record of supple lul...
At this point in his career, Owen Pallett has quietly done it all, earning a deep respect and becoming a highly sought-after collaborator, w...
During his early days in New York's DIY scene, Dave Benton was known for being the tender voice of honesty in the three-songwriter band LVL...
On an unusually bright winter day in early March, Exclaim! met up with Hamilton-based artist Linnea Siggelkow, who performs under the name E...
With her heart on her sleeve, Linnea Siggelkow wrote and independently released The Fuzz in 2018, her first EP under the moniker Ellis. It w...
On her latest album as Half Waif, Nandi Rose wonders down a triumphant journey within, lingering on supersaturated moments of her past throu...
On her debut album as Squirrel Flower, Ella O'Connor Williams explores a state of mind where escaping from obscurity and into the unknown de...
