Ah, been a while since Dag was on the scene but the Aussies are back with a new jangler that’s understated and pulling at the right heartstrings on their new single “Point…
Wurld Series descend on a brand of ‘90s indie that hits like a wave of nostalgia, but rather than simply wink and nod their way through What’s Growing, they collage the college…
Ryley Walker’s latest LP pushes the artist’s songwriting to ambitious heights, moving from the post-rock punch of Deafman’s Glance to an elegiac, prog-dipped folk that touches through Buckley and Harper territory. This…
What’s most striking about the new collaboration between Bill Orcutt and Chris Corsano is the lack of jaggedness. The pair have worked together before, most recently as a duo on Brace Up!,…
Philly’s Writing Squares have been hammering home a brew of fried-synapse psych, skronked jazz burnouts, and kosmiche zone clearers for a while now, but they’ve never threaded them together in quite as…
I was a huge fan of Quilt’s densely layered psych-pop and as the band has gone their separate ways, the new strains of its members have yielded wonderful results. Vocalist Anna Fox…
Not that I’d be the first to raise the flag on the necessity of this excellent Willie Dunn collection, but I’d be remiss not to drive you in that direction. Put together…
Chapter Music dig back into the Aussie archives to issue the works of young upstarts Tangled Shoelaces. The band was all of 10-14 when they recorded the songs on Turn My Dial…
Got a psych-knocked scrapper today from Evolfo, the Brooklyn via Boston band seven-piece whose latest album, Site Out Of Mind arrives on Royal Potato Family on June 18. Pulling from the same rhythm-racked…
Last year Jeffrey Silverstein kicked in an excellent collection of Cosmic Americana and water-cooled country and folk. His cassette for Arrowhawk was a sly gem among a good year for the genres…
The Peacers, Mike Donovan’s post-Sic Alps harbingers of fuzz-wrangled hangover hits, have continued to evolve since their 2015 debut. What once started as a duo with Ty Segall in tow has bloomed…
There’s no drought of works from Jeffrey Alexander lately, but no complaints on the influx of great tunes around here either. While his proper debut with The Heavy Lidders is still on…
Riding in on a calm wind, the debut from Nashville Ambient Ensemble taps into the calm core we’re all looking to find, perhaps more than ever lately. Assembled by Michael Hix, the…
Another cut creeps out from the upcoming LP Made Out Of Sound from Bill Orcutt & Chris Corsano. While the pair have unleashed a devastating bout of noise in the past, this…
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.