For those that were scouring the right corners of psychedelia last year, the debut from Upupayāma came as something of a welcome surprise. A solo outing from Italian songwriter Alessio Ferrari, the…
A nice little surprise from Lewsberg today. The band’s been consistently offering up some of the best stripped down pop these past few years, with their most recent album, In Your Hands,…
Thrilled to see The Laughing Chimes announcing new EP on Slumberland. The Ohio young’uns released an excellent album last year on Pretty Olivia and this new short form follow-up captures the same…
I certainly haven’t been quiet about this record, but now that the release is upon us, it’s worth a full force shout about the essential debut from French janglers EggS. The record…
After a few years, an ongoing pandemic, and a false start, One Eleven Heavy is back on the shelves this week with their third album. The band was poised to record the…
A second single from the upcoming Alien Nosejob confirms that Jake’s gone full force rock n’ roll on this album, shucking away the outfit’s previous skins soaked in disco, new wave, and…
An excellently brittle and bouncing post-punk gem out of the UK today. The Early Mornings make a jump to Practise Music for a new 12” EP that packs as much charm into…
Disorienting, bracing, and brutal, but with strange pockets of joy scraped out between the crushed plastic patterns, Comradly Objects finds Horse Lords hypnotizing listeners amid the swirl of their noise-prog vortex. There…
More good news out of the French indie circuit today. As their friends in EggS prepare a debut for Friday, En Attendant Ana announce their third LP for Trouble in Mind. The…
The last Gold Dust album marked a defiant departure from Stephen Pierce’s (Ampere, Kindling) roots in hardcore and shoegaze. The record sought kinship with the private press folk crowd, holing up in…
It’s good to see UK ground shakers Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs back in action this month. The band helps knock loose the last days of summer revelry, ushering in…
A nice surprise this morning brings a new single from Sencer Cullum with another RSTB fave in tow on the collaboration. The Nashville songwriter pairs up with Yuma Abe, whose album on…
Two all new doses of mind scrape madness hurtle out of the Witch Fingers’ universe as the band embarks on an Aussie tour. With wafts of a new album on the way,…
I love Danish label El Paraiso for the eternal mutability of its bands and lineups. The roster is constantly cross-pollinating acts to create new permutations with oftentimes surprising results. At the core…
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.