Been meaning to explore this new release from Marissa Nadler, always a favorite around here. As the songwriter embarks on her tenth solo album, she’s long since moved away from the wooded…
An unexpected swerve in direction from Jeff Tobias (Sunwatchers, Modern Nature, The Mothers Network) as he slides into a solo outing of synth-pop. With a new wave burble and bittersweet shading, the…
A new solo work was announced today from guitarist J.R. Bohannon, who was most recently found collaborating with Ben Greenberg and Ryley Walker on their album For Michael Ripps. “Our Only World”…
Caught wind of this one earlier in the week and I’m glad to see this pop up on Bandcamp Friday. Massage’s sophomore LP this year amplified the most endearing parts of their…
I love a release that leads me back on a trail of breadcrumbs for gems from the past. This latest single from longstanding West Coast rippers The Mother Hips springs from an…
As I’ve mentioned before, the eponymous Lidders LP from this year showed a very different side of the band than I’d first encountered a couple of years back. When The Heavy Lidders…
Nice burner here off of The High Beamers’ new album, Who Cares? Helmed by Tom Spall (Wirehads, Dom & The Wizards), its less wire-chewed than his work with a few other Aussie…
Feeding Tube sums this one up nicely in calling it an album that no one expected, but perhaps it’s just the kind of mind scrub we need about now. All Summer Long…
Couldn’t be happier at the news that The Reds Pinks and Purples have a new LP on the way next year. The band, which spent years in chrysalis before coming to true…
Considering the fact that among other musical tangents, I spent a good amount of time stuffed into sweaty spaces absorbing the garage revival of the late ‘90s/early ‘00s, it seems strange I…
After a few singles that dabbled with amber-colored country strains, I’d expected Ben Cook to lean into the dust of this new direction. The turnabout seemed even more plausible once stories of…
Dead Oceans has continues to foster the legacy of Bill Fay. Over the last decade, the label has brought light to his early works and issued new albums from the English singer.…
This one has been charming the RSTB speakers for some time now and it’s great to have it finally out in the world. Feeling like an almost too perfect fit for Slumberland,…
John Dwyer’s current crawl into the psychedelic jazz cavern continues unabated with his latest arriving just a few months after the funk-bent Moon Drenched and the free scrawl of Endless Garbage. Dubbed…
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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