While he’s been working out highly regarded self-released albums for a few years now, Gems and Minerals marks Stefan Beck’s first work for an outside source, arriving via cassette for Inner Islands.…
Following up on one of my already-attested favorites of the year, Pearl Charles offers up a one-off (or hint at something new on the way?) in the form of “Deja Vu.” The…
The treasures keep coming today and the latest tape from Blue Hole is among them. The label’s focus on acoustic excellence has lead them to releases from Joesph Allred, Eli Winter, Matthew…
Ambient country heroes Suss have been making large strides within their own sonically sanguine corner of the world in the last few years. Long advocates of the place where the horizon hits…
There were few true markers to indicate the shift that Tonstartssbandht would make on their latest album Petunia. While Sorcerer was an excellent bout of ectoplasmic psych — bouncing around the room…
Got a brand new video full of synth-punk pummel today from Melbourne’s Screensaver. The band’s latest, Expressions of Interest, landed them in a split situation between Upset The Rhythm and Heavy Machinery…
The latest LP from Azniv Korkejian under her Bedouine moniker is a meditative slip into the folk cocoon. Hung on her soft-focus surreal sensibility and storyteller’s soul, the record brings to mind…
A second single from UK outfit EggS only bolsters the assessment that their upcoming EP is gonna be an essential pickup. While the band remains elusive to the point that even Prefect…
UK songwriter Henry Parker taps into the UK mists on a new single from his upcoming album Lammas Fair. With smoke curls of flute, gentle picks and a ripple of hand percussion,…
Can’t say I ever had “tangental reformation of The Ooga Boogas” on my list of probabilities for 2021, but here we are staring at the debut from Power Supply, an album that’s…
Seems almost backwards that the real introduction to Jeffrey Alexander’s Heavy Lidders this year has been the eponymous LP. While it’s an amazing album that bends the band in eclectic directions, devouring…
I honestly can’t get enough of this debut from Chime School, the solo outfit from Francisco musician Andy Pastalaniec (Seablite, Pink Films, Cruel Summer). A bit softer than the past offerings, “Wait…
Gothenburg’s Hollow Ship expand their debut album from last year, a release that was a bit overshadowed by its April release during peak pandemic last year. The album was a psych-rock ripper,…
This year’s been crammed full of essentials and surprise faves, so its getting hard to rise above the fray but the upcoming LP from Tonstartssbandht comes in as their strongest album yet,…
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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