This record isn’t even out yet and it might already be my most played of the year. Sean Thompson has been a kind of insider secret for those looking to round our…
An old fave of the site is back today with the announcement of a new album. There’s a quality to songs from UK outfit Martha that make each new single feel like…
Now if there’s ever an artist that’s on my all timer list of folks you need to have on your radar, its Chris Knox. Knox first caught my ear with his band,…
The past few years have seen Eli Winter build up a pastoral folk tradition that pushes aside a lot of the assumptions about fingerpicked players. Leaving behind the Takoma narrative, he explores…
An end of summer treat from One Eleven Heavy this week! With the exception of a one-off Bandcamp cover, this is the first that the world has heard from the band since…
The options for Tarotplane in 2022 are mounting, with the cycles of Light Self All Others already released and another album, The Ektacrhome Dawn, on the way from Tonight’s Dream in September.…
Adelaide’s Workhorse issues her proper followup to 2017’s No Sun. That record felt pretty criminally underrated, especially in the US. As she eases into No Photographs, Harriet Fraser-Barbour (Wireheads, Fair Maiden) amplifies…
The first album from Upupayāma came seemingly out of nowhere, an enigma from the Italian mountains that explored fantasy worlds dripped in psychedelics, looking to the works of Magma and Gong for…
The latest edition of Crawl Out From The Fallout went out on the air yesterday. This one was packed with so much new music I had to whittle a few off to…
As we approach Deep In The Valley here in a couple of weeks, I realize that I’m remiss in shining a proper light on Ashley Paul’s excellent new album. Long a fixture…
An entrancing new single and video lands from London jazz trio Szun Waves. “in The Moon House,” creeps into the room on panting piano waves before Jack Wyllie’s sax begins to work…
A second single off of Melbourne’s Cool Sounds lands today and it continues the band’s push towards a more rhythmic sound. Syncopated groove drives “6 of 7 More,” shaken with funk-strung guitar,…
The psychedelic jazz well is running over in 2022, from the signals bouncing out of Denmark, to Canadian collectives growing headier by the album, but this record from Rich Ruth is up…
Perpetual Doom add another necessary album for 2022 to their roster. Following up the excellent new Lee Baggett, they’ve announced a compendium of music from L.A. band Mountain Brews. The band, headed…
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.