While I found it late, Cactus Lee’s album Texas Music Forever was a delight that lasted well after 2021 was over. And just as that one sinks into the skin, it seems…
Another nice surprise for the week comes from Brighton’s Wax Machine. The band had a sorely overlooked gem of an album on Beyond Beyond is Beyond (RIP) a few years back, and…
Quite a lovely debut EP here from Ontario’s Ivy Wye. The singer-songwriter has found herself collaborating in the past with RSTB fave James Matthew VII, but here she’s taking the center spotlight…
A second cut lands from the upcoming collab between Mary Lattimore and multi-instrumentalist Paul Sukeena. “Didn’t See The Comet” is a lonesome crawl up the hill. Sukeena’s guitar ambles in a delightful…
Loving what’s happening on the periphery of Real Estate these days. With Alex joining up with Taper’s Choice, taking the cosmic jam route and now Martin offering up a country-soaked new single…
Well look at that, after already talking up the excellent out of Guruguru Brain in the Dhidalah review, Kikagaku Moyo go and release another glimpse into their upcoming Kumoyo Island today. The…
Seems like just a couple of months ago that Ty dropped Harmonizer, his synth-heavy bruiser from last year, but he’s back already with a new album and a return to a more…
So much goodness coming out of Guruguru Brain right now. With the news of the final Kikagaku Moyo album on the rise, the label does a quick turn with the surprise release…
Following last year’s kosmiche and motorik currents on Horizontology, tarotplane returns with a decidedly more languid set of songs. The flow on Light Self All Others is meditative with a light dash…
This album has definitely been bubbling below the surface for some time. The L.A. psych collective GROOP has been letting out a few singles over the past year, but this is the…
This one’s been popping up on the site since the first single hit a few months back, and now that its here in full, the record won’t be leaving my rotation soon.…
A couple of years ago a nice head trip of a record snuck out from John Jeffrey. Probably best known as the drummer from Moon Duo, Jeffrey shied away from the harder…
Since their inception, UK psych collective Wolf People has been an RSTB staple. The band has always carried and out-of-time quality about them, something familiar, yet otherworldly. Their albums were steeped in…
I wrote this great new single from WEEED up the other day, but the band’s gone and knocked it up a notch with an accompanying video that pairs the song’s dawn spirit…
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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