Misha Bower Trying to Have It All

Published May 21, 2019

On her debut solo album, London, ON-based artist Misha Bower — co-founder of the sprawling experimental rock band Bruce Peninsula — is a sto...

Heather Woods Broderick Invitation

Published May 06, 2019

Heather Woods Broderick devised her third album, Invitation, on the Oregon coast. Even if you skipped this fact when reading the album's lin...

Aldous Harding Designer

Published Apr 30, 2019

Aldous Harding's abstract songwriting left listeners of her past two records confused yet enchanted, and the experience remains for her thir...

Aldous Harding's 'Designer' Dances on "Different Feet"

Published Apr 24, 2019

Aldous (Hannah) Harding is happy that her music makes people feel uncertain. The New Zealand-born singer-songwriter recalls a special moment...

Justin Wright Music for Staying Warm

Published Apr 03, 2019

Music for Staying Warm is an antidote to anticipatory anxiety. The debut LP from Montreal composer and cellist Justin Wright — who has worke...

Justin Wright's Cello Masterwork 'Music for Staying Warm' Started as a Favour for a Friend

Published Apr 03, 2019

You may have heard Montreal-based composer Justin Wright play the cello without even realizing it. Though Wright's debut LP, Music for Stayi...

'Which Side Are You On? 20th Century American History in 100 Protest Songs' Is Ambitious But Lacks Breadth By James Sullivan

Published Mar 25, 2019

American journalist James Sullivan has an ambitious goal for his latest book Which Side Are You On? 20th Century American History in 100 Pro...

Iron & Wine Our Endless Numbered Days (Deluxe Edition)

Published Mar 22, 2019

In 2002, Sam Beam (Iron & Wine), a soft-spoken father, husband and film professor residing in Florida, released a sparse, lo-fi debut, The C...

Lomelda M for Empathy

Published Mar 11, 2019

The music that Hannah Read makes as Lomelda is for quiet spaces. The soft, propulsive folk-rock of her LP Thx, a standout release from 2017,...

Patient Hands Stoic

Published Feb 25, 2019

Montreal's Alex Stooshinoff (Patient Hands) wrote his debut full-length, Stoic, immediately after coming out of a dark period. About this ti...

Tiny Ruins Transcend Folk, New Zealand and Time Itself on New Album 'Olympic Girls'

Published Feb 04, 2019

"It's swelteringly hot here; we're in the future," says Hollie Fullbrook, singer and guitarist of Tiny Ruins, in an Exclaim! phone interview...

Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow

Published Jan 18, 2019

Sharon Van Etten wrote her fifth album, Remind Me Tomorrow, in, as she told Exclaim!, "a delirium of wanting to be creative." The album's so...

Sharon Van Etten Was Too Busy to Make an Album, Then She Wrote 40 Songs for 'Remind Me Tomorrow'

Published Jan 16, 2019

In between going to school, having a baby, starring in the Netflix series The OA, writing the score for the film Strange Weather, and being...

Angelo De Augustine Tomb

Published Jan 14, 2019

Angelo De Augustine's Tomb is a shrine to a former relationship. While the title suggests De Augustine's third full-length album is full of...

Kacey Musgraves, Mitski, "Yodel Kid" and Justin Timberlake: the Good and Bad of Cowboy Culture in 2018

Published Dec 11, 2018

It's been another year of loud, reckless men taking up space, so it's fitting that pop culture was dominated by the cowboy, a hyper-masculin...

nêhiyawak Tackle the Past and Sound Like the Future on 'starlight'

Published Dec 06, 2018

nêhiyawak — Marek Tyler, Kris Harper, and Matthew Cardinal — sit in a parked car in the River Valley of amiskwaciy (Edmonton) and carefully...

Daniel Romano Thinks 'Finally Free,' Which Came to Him in a Flash, Is His Best Yet

Published Nov 30, 2018

Daniel Romano thinks that Finally Free, his third album of 2018 following the surprise release of Nerveless and Human Touch in January, is h...

nêhiyawak starlight

Published Nov 28, 2018

nêhiyawak's starlight doesn't really sound like anything else that's been released this year. Across the EP's five tracks, the Amiskwaciy (E...

Kaia Kater Tells Her Father's Story on 'Grenades' and Ended Up Finding Herself

Published Oct 26, 2018

On Boxing Day last year, Kaia Kater sat with her dad in his basement in Vancouver, turned on her audio recorder, and asked to hear his immig...

Kaia Kater Grenades

Published Oct 25, 2018

In an interview with Exclaim!, singer-songwriter Kaia Kater says, about Grenades, "I have processed a lot of things and definitely feel stro...