Psych-pop snagged by propulsion is at the core of the upcoming Dummy record, but the band is by no means a one-note network of influences. The rather resplendent, and surprising pre-album release…
It’s impossible to give everything a fair shake around here, and I’ll be honest, the release of Fruit Bats’ LP The Pet Parade slipped by me last year. Really digging into this…
So much good news today, I’m trying to breathlessly get to it all. Seems that RSTB faves Modern Nature (feat mems of Ultimate Painting, Sunwatchers) has a new project on the way.…
The jams just keep coming from The Heavy Lidders this year and in the wake of their excellent and essential album for Arrowhawk, the band serves up a very limited tape for…
Another month that’s just packed with new records and I love to see it. This month’s show saw new singles from RSTB faves like Tonstartssbandht, Garcia Peoples, Grace Cummings, Traffik Island, Chime…
There’s a chill in the air and despite working through this new Vanishing Twin album for the past couple of months, now it truly makes sense. The aura that circles the air…
L.A. folk duo Mapache are back and they want to tell you how they spent their lockdown time. After a scuttled tour the band decided that the studio was a proper refuge…
A second jangler from the upcoming Semi Trucks album sneaks out today. The LA band’s pop is pancaked between layers of lo-fi, feeling like a xeroxed transmission from the indie pop past…
Snock returns and we’re all better for it. After a string of reissues through Feeding Tube, The Time of the Foxgloves marks the first new Michael Hurley album since 2009 and at…
A new dusted rambler from Aussies Ricky Albeck & The Belair Line Band lands today on Adelaide’s Swirl Records. While a new album hasn’t been announce yet, gotta hope that this is…
For fans of NZ indie pop The Clean will always be an essential inclusion in any collection, but far less gushed about is David Kilgour’s short-lived band Stephen. The band was formed…
It should come as no surprise at this point that the works that inhabit the Ghost Box bubble occupy a fevered delirium of television music memories, hypnogogic haze, and synth-pop saturation, but…
Haven’t heard the name Step-Panther in a bit, but it’s good to have the Aussie band back at it today. A new single “Bike Lock” picks up the gnarled indie yoke where…
An over-abundance of new music hits today, so I’m going to try to pack it all in. A while back I featured the excellent EP from Aussie quartet The Oogars and now…
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.
The site is written and maintained by Andy French.