The last album from ROY embraced the conceptual pop album with all its might. Dipped in ‘60s psychedelics, the album explored a conspiracy-laced narrative involving extra-terrestrials, government agencies, a stone of infinite…
I’ve done a fair amount of gushing about the new John Andrews album. As he slips back in with the fictional (mythical?) Yawns once more, this time the haze that lingered over…
The last two Goon Sax LPs solidified the band’s deft touch with the fallout from jangle-pop and New Wave. They created an amalgam that was rhythmically tense, but shaggy in its adoption…
Chris Schlarb packed out last year with the release of his ambitious opus Houses of the Holy, under his Psychic Temple moniker, and (a personal favorite around here) the fictional archival release…
Another round of Crawl Out From the Fallout rained down last night and, as usual lots of new music found its way into the mix. There were new tracks from Green-House, Rosali,…
The new album from Fake Fruit jumps into the lineup over at Rocks in Your Head quite nicely, with a post-punk sprawl that bounces around the speakers with a rubbery delight. The…
I’ve had an open love for all things Pete Astor around here — from solo recordings to an insistance that The Weather Prophets’ material has long been in need of reissue. While…
Another gem out of the Tenth Court stable lands this week with the latest from Australia’s Shrapnel. The song mixes a jangled indie with a strain of ‘60s psych-folk that feels like…
Been a little while since I’ve featured Evan Caminiti, but this Bandcamp Friday saw a lovely longform release from him in the form of “Gleam.” The track, composed of his patient, prodding…
On their debut EP, Six Songs for Invisible Gardens, Olive Ardizoni created a capsule of calm that, much like the moniker that adorns the project, acted as a life line between humans…
A trio of Comet Gain adjacent EPs drop out of the blue today with the indie-pop supergroup Cinema Red and Blue making an appearance to let out a gaggle of covers from…
Another cosmic ripper from the upcoming Possum record lands on this highest of Bandcamp holidays, and what better day to hook into their upcoming psych-splattered sophomore LP. Pounding drums and heady distortion…
More goodness on what’s quickly becoming an attempt to ingest more music than seems humanly possible, Bandcamp Friday. A short shot here from Axis: Sova pushes a more motorik pulse, with the…
There seems no other enclave that has the spirit of post-punk locked down harder than Upset The Rhythm. They span the spectrum, with artists running from dry-dock chargers like Es and Kaputt,…
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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