BRENNAN
MCCRACKEN
My writing has appeared in Maisonneuve, Musicworks, This Magazine, Visual Arts News, and The Coast, Halifax’s alt-weekly, where I was a contributing writer.
In 2020, I joined the jury of the Polaris Music Prize.
Reviews
on Jordan Abel’s Empty Spaces, The Goose, vol. 20. no. 2, 2025
on The Inferno (trans. Lorna Goodison), Montreal Review of Books, Spring 2025.
on MUTEK – HYBRID – Cutting Edge Canada, Musicworks no. 139, Spring/Summer 2021
on Everyseeker – Emergent Response, Musicworks no. 237, Fall 2020
on Eva Crocker’s All I Ask | Maisonneuve
on Jordan Moffatt’s U is for Upside-Down House | Maisonneuve
on Billy-Ray Belcourt’s NDN Coping Mechanisms | Maisonneuve
on OBEY Convention XII | Musicworks
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Ongoing record reviews, Musicworks, 2020-present
Essays
With the Floe | Maisonneuve
Against the Stream | Maisonneuve
Profiles and reporting
Debby Friday’s energy potential | Musicworks
Markus Floats’ motion emotion | Musicworks
Glenn Copeland’s Musical Rebirth | This Magazine
Cover Story: Zamani | The Coast
Arielle Twist’s becoming | The Coast
Joseph Shabason’s patient unravelling | Musicworks
Rae Spoon’s nature of things | The Coast
Dog Day’s not over yet | The Coast
Nap Eyes’ subjective science | The Coast
Ursula Johnson vs. everyday cultural appropriation | Visual Arts News
Jeremy Dutcher: A beautiful archive of our people | The Coast
Cover Story: Charlotte Day Wilson | The Coast
Fiver’s audible history | The Coast
Lido Pimienta is lit | The Coast
OBEY X marks the spot | The Coast
Comedy of sharers | The Coast
Destroyer’s solo creation | The Coast
Old and Weird go their own way | The Coast