There are plenty of safe, cushy jangle-pop records that snatch up the brightest bits of The Byrds, Sarah, and Anglophile pickers with summer strums in mind and Autumn ache in their hearts.…
A low slung choogler out of Chicago snaps on today, tipped up by Drag City imprint Country Thyme. The band’s new single “High Time” chugs along on a dirty riff that laps…
A psych folk gem streaks out of the Canadian cradle this week. The second single from Hieronymus Harry’s debut album is a country ramble that feels like it has a bit of…
The debut from SoCal songwriter Ryan Baine works its way through quite a few pasts, with a particular eye towards ‘70s single-songwriter sounds and bits of Americana. Baine proves proficient in picking…
This is definitely one I’ve been anticipating for a while. After the demise of the beloved Joanna Gruesome, the members began to crop up in new outfits with revolving lineups. After the…
More goodness out of the grounds of Curation today, capping off the week with a new track from Farmer Dave and the Wizards of West. Following up the dance-doused last single “Ohana,”…
Weaving sunshine and psych in a way that’s decidedly out of fashion for 2022, but doing it with such conviction and clarity that listener’s can’t help but be charmed, the new album…
In the crush of Japanese reissues that have worked their way out over the past few years Jacks have largely been left out of the conversation in favor of the harsher psychedelics…
A second single teases the official pre-order for the sophomore album from Upupayāma this week. Italian multi-instrumentalist Alessio Ferrari continues to plumb the depths of psychedelia, finding easy footing with releases from…
I haven’t drilled down on this new Babe Rainbow album yet, but it’s worth calling out this nice slice of psych pop that opens up the new album. The band seems to…
Sweden’s Goat remain consistent in their commitment to the ideal of a shadowy cabal of cultural chaos. The masked collective have wrapped their records in the remnants of psychedelic collector aesthetic, clipping…
By this time you should have been able to absorb the latest double dose of pop from Young Guv, his second such set in the last few years. Ben Cook offers up…
The past couple of years have seen quite a few comic country albums, American explorations, and retreads of the connective tissue in between. There are elements of those genres at play within…
Any familiarity with Bill Nace will probably lead the listener down a host of divergent rabbit holes. The artist has appeared on records with Thurston Moore, Joe McPhee, Dredd Foole, and Samara…
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.