Keeping the tone locked into nodes of psychedelic jazz today, another great album slips out of the European enclave at El Paraiso Records. Split between heavy psych scorch and heady jazz, the…
I’m happy to share the first full listen through the new album from TWÏNS, the alias of songwriter Miro Denck. The record revels in a lounged eclecticism, pulling from psychedelic and spiritual…
Wednesday is an artist who has been cropping up around here for sometime, though this marks her first solo record I’ve had the chance to really dig into. It’s her fourth solo…
More goodness out of Guruguru Brain this week with an announcement of a new album on the way from minima Deutsch. With the speakers already plenty busy with the new Kikagaku Moyo…
I know that the idea of the favorites list can elicit a big eye roll from some, but since I think it always shines a nice light on some records that I…
An excellent new single from UK guitarist Dean McPhee lands today. The A-side is an echo-laden slice of smoldering instrumental guitar, pulling at the mind like taffy and living up to its…
The second single from Aussie outfit Workhorse dips away from the indie aura of “Chain.” Amping up the surf twang, the song admittedly pulls from The Shadows and Link Wray but lands…
Sergio Sayeg’s last album as Sessa was a charmingly breezy album that leaned into Bossa Nova, folk, and Tropicália. While there were some embellishments, it was largely a spare affair that found…
Daniel Romano’s Outfit has made a number of mentions here over the past few years, with albums coming faster than anyone can bear to keep up. The last album was bolstered by…
Each new single from this Andrew Tuttle album is more gorgeous than the last. “New Breakfast Habit” features contributions from Luke Schneider and Darren Cross, a sunrise slip of banjo and pedal…
There’s an earned weariness to the latest Joan Shelley album. The Spur is somehow both longing for the road and yearning to leave it behind. The songs here revel in the small…
There’s a reverberating solace in the works of Col Police & Nat Harvie and no matter where you land in their new album Strawberry Roan, the dawn light seems to wrap around…
The singles off of this upcoming Teddy and the Rough Riders are coming fast, and better by the day. With two singles already out that show the band’s softer, cosmic side, “Dance…
A much needed breeze of ambient country wafting in off the air today as the debut from Seawind of Battery hits the speakers. The outfit, an alias of Mike Horn (Goldkey, Sunblinders),…
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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