A softer side of the upcoming debut from Anna Butterss lands today, smelting the jazz barbs from the first taste with a hazy aura. “Pokemans” slips their sound into a hallucinatory hollow,…
A long gestating album from L.A. staples Groop sees light this year. Following a 3-year residency at Zebulon, the band has been honing this one live as improvisations that take shape on…
Last year was another solid runner from Austin singer-songwriter Cactus Lee. Kevin Dehan has been operating under the name for a few years yet, letting out low-key country killers that let private…
Must be slipping, I missed out on this new single from the great Styrofoam Winos about a week back. With a little time to marinate, the new single is just as potent…
A second single hits the speakers today from Goat’s upcoming eponymous album. The band continues to let the funk flow on “Goatbrain” blending Eastern psych guitar stabs with a looser feel on…
Catching up on this one from last week, but I’d be remiss not to mention this superb slice of indie pop. The Submissives have been haunting Montreal for about a decade, and…
The second album from outsider country sliders Animal Piss, It’s Everywhere rolls deep into the same shaggy shambles as their first. The band culls together an East Coast ensemble of some of…
New Zealand’s Best Bets return with a new single today, a yearning power pop crusher that opens up the band’s new album The Hollow Husk of Feeling. Pairing chiming leads with a…
North Carolina trio Setting’s debut was a gorgeous record full of folk experiments that unfolded into pulsating seances. While the studio might be able to capture a portion of the band’s magic,…
As BASIC, Forsyth/Millevoi/Avery tap the quicksilver repetition that threaded through their source of inspiration — Quine and Maher’s album of the same name. The trio jumps off from that unsung gem and…
A new single slips out from UK favorites Mt. Misery, along with the news of their new album on Prefect Records. “Waking Up” finds the band drenched in jangles and the soft-focus…
Centripetal Force keeps the ambient aura glowing today with a second single shrouded in dusk light. Laced with a somber gravity and hushed tones, the new single from numün introduces the band’s…
Yasmin Williams’ new album arrives just in time to help the listener slip into Autumn, wafting out of the speakers on cool breezes. Her new single, “Hummingbird,” embraces a bluegrass ramble that…
Over the last few years Weak Signal have steadily established themselves as one of the best NYC bands. An alley-hardened trio who suture ‘70s punk austerity to the bone-dry bash of the…
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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