The second single off of Jana Horn’s new album, The Window Is The Dream, captures the colors between the night air. “The Dream” slinks on slicked spiderwebs of guitar. In the air…
The next single from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne’s Smote is soaked in a heavier drape of gloom than the first. On their latest album, the band oscillates between psych-folk, doom, and drone, but they’re leaning…
Alongside a stacked lineup of Nashville players — Jack Lawrence (Raconteurs, Dead Weather), Brian Kotzur (Silver Jews, Country Westerns), and Luke Schneider (solo, Margo Price) — William Tyler fashions his guitar trysts into slightly…
Amish Records gives an overdue reissue to a folk gem that stands at the axis of quite a few RSTB faves. P.G. Six, better known as Pat Gubler, is a member of…
The trajectory of Triptides has always been one of evolution. The band’s sound often evokes other eras, but they never stay still for long. For their latest album on Curation the band…
Another single slides out from the upcoming new album by RSTB faves Terry. Hung on a healthy guitar crunch, a stomping beat, and a squiggle or two of synth, the song delivers…
If you missed out on the delightful debut from The Mellons last year, here’s another good reminder. The album is stacked with psych-pop touches, layered harmonies, melancholy melodies, and nods to Baroque…
The smoothest cowboy in Brooklyn lets loose with a new album of modern malaise cut with enough humor to pull us all out of the perpetual motion doldrum we’re living out in…
Excellent news for a Monday as a new record from Natural Information Society hits the schedule. Joshua Abrams’ ensemble heads into their seventh album with a continued focus on hypnotic healing and…
Packed day, but there’s room for one more before this weekend takes off. This one seems to have been a bit of an under the radar announcement, but Dan Horne (Circles Around…
It has been quite some time since Bill Orcutt released a solo acoustic album — a decade, in fact. In the interim he’s been on the header with everyone from longtime foil…
On their latest album, Principia, Parisian band En Attendant Ana swing towards a classic pop sound, culling rhythm and aesthetics from heroes Broadcast, Electralane, and Stereolab, while still keeping things tied to…
As I’ve been in a particularly heavy run of listening to Emitt Rhodes lately, this first single from Vanity Mirror hits pretty hard. The band, with members of L.A. psych-pop revivalists The…
Another stunner off of the upcoming Eric Silverman LP lands this week. The previous singles have skewed towards the prog and psych end of Silverman’s spectrum, but “Ride On” swerves square into…
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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