I’m definitely going to have to crack into this one in full, but for now this is too good not to bring up and share. Italian psych unit Al Doum & The…
I first came to Sotelo’s works in 2019, with his excellently off-kilter pop for Upset The Rhythm on Infinite Sprawling. Where that album was a conversation between curdled keys and rubberized guitar,…
A good week around here for Sam Balsucci of Mapache channeling the spirits of the past. As the band’s album 3 is released today, covering a wide swath of faves, he unveils…
This one seems to have slipped out a bit quietly for Stateside folks. I came backwards to The Wave Pictures through faves The Surfing Magazines, but the pastoral charms of the band…
Last year Traffik Island’s Zak Olsen steered his solo project away from its folk roots and into the arms of sweaty, late night funk figures with shades of Big Beat looming large.…
Last year saw Danish psych label El Paraiso dig further into the jazz tangent that’s been bubbling over there in the past few years. 2020 saw the release of two albums by…
Been meaning to get a moment with this one. This is billed as the second tape from Karl Frog, an amateur musician from Canberra/Estonia coming out through Al Montfort’s Hidiotic label, though…
After almost three decades as the face of Comet Gain, David Christian strikes out solo, aiming to brush aside a bit of the cheekiness of the Gain and embrace earnestness. Decamping to…
Been digging into this album from Aussie songwriter Tam Vantage, aka Tam Matlakowski (Permits, Carpet Burn, Pop Singles). With a tighter reign than some of his other endeavors, Matlakowski turns brooding guitar…
A last single from California’s Semi Trucks before the album slips out this month on Meritorio Records. Burning off a bit of the haze of their earlier singles, the song sidles into…
Never a bad day when there’s a new Garcia Peoples track in the running and today the band completes the preview of the first side of the upcoming LP with “False Company.”…
I feel like I’ve gotta say it every time, but I love writing these pieces to see what drives the artists I love, and more importantly what treasures are hiding out on…
Well, if the Re-released Into the Wild column is any indication, I love a good rescue tale and the 34-year journey of UK noise-psych unit Magic Roundabout slides into the pantheon of…
This is one of the reasons I’m always going to follow a psych-design rabbit hole. In searching through Callum Rooney’s designs during his Design Inspiration piece, among the bands that had already…
Raven Sings the Blues started as an MP3 blog back in 2006, when such a thing existed. Eventually it evolved into a daily music review site focusing on garage, psych, county, experimental, indie and crucial reissues.
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