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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 17h

Natural Information Society pull back the curtain a little further on their new longform LP. “Perseverance Flow (Rally Guts & Humor Mix),” mixes dub plate dankness with modal jazz tectonics, a cross-section of slow-motion sweat that’s just the surface of what’s to come on the full LP. bit.ly/3WtGgr7

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 21h

Fondling feedback & working dynamics like a 4th member of the band, $500's debut, Twelve Eyes, is a gnarled treat for the Alt acolytes out there. They wield both brevity & slow burn, chalking up 90 second stunners & an 8-minute centerpiece that feel equally comfortable in their hands. bit.ly/4pRSd7w

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 22h

Maya Ongaku releases a bonus single following their recent US tour. “Maybe Psychic” slinks into the room on gooey keys and rubber room rhythms. Wafting into the arms of dub, it echoes around the humid headspace, a reminder that the band’s malleability is its greatest asset. bit.ly/3VS0Tx5

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 22h

Zach Tenorio (Arc Iris, Taper’s Choice) hurtles the listener through a sea of keys, lock n loop drums, & vocal snippets that whirl around the room. Clipping from Neo-soul, hip-hop, prog, & Big Beat, the song feels like a kindred spirit to Toro y Moi if he upped the caffeine. bit.ly/3IUv57R

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 1d

Throughout the album’s inner turmoil, the added embellishments pull Scarecrow II towards its place as one of the most sparkling of their West Coast contemporaries. The new record sets The Telephone Numbers up, not as ones to watch, but rather ones to catch @slumberlandrecords.com bit.ly/3KEpJhG

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 1d

Sessa's new record puts a more prevalent emphasis on piano. The instrument punctuates new single, “Nome de Deus,” an urgent voice rising above the percolating bass and hand-hammered percussion. The song bubbles, a caffeinated clamor crawling the listener out of Sessa’s usual calm aura bit.ly/47cnMl7

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 2d

An album that should appeal to longtime fans of Hurley's weathered leather folk forms. A singular voice; part town square truth teller, part vaudeville spell caster. His songs ramble though grassy blues, tied up with burn pile smoke and sweet breezes, while retaining a studio charm. bit.ly/3KB3PM6

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 2d

Aughts psych-folk gets another excellent piece of the past restored this morning as Autumn Records announces a reissue of Kurt Weisman’s 2010 gem Orange. The Feathers' songwriter's 2nd album has long been out of print, a gentle piece of pastoral folk with an intimate air. bit.ly/4pV01We

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 5d

Wrapping up another week of recommendations, doing double duty as a Bandcamp Friday list as well. Dip into new singles from Daniel Romano, Taper's Choice, Julianna Riolino, Shinglers, The New Eves, Zachary Cale, The Reds, Pinks and Purples, Goat, Wet Tuna, Tom Skinner and more! bit.ly/4pV01We

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 5d

RSTB faves The Hanging Stars return this week with a luminous new single, “Sister of the Sun.” Recorded with Gerry Love (Teenage Fanclub), the cut is still dipped in the psych folk and country that’s found its way into their records, nestling deeper into the cosmic cocoon than ever. bit.ly/4nzHs8z

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 5d

Torn & Frayed announce a collection of demos and unreleased tracks from songwriter Hal Paris (Country Funk). There’s a loneliness to the tracks here, still awash in the subtle country touches that made the band great, but more aligned with private press troubadours like FJ McMahon. bit.ly/3Wklb2l

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 6d

The glam crunch of Danny Ayala's “Pluto” provides an instant classic that’s candy coated and nervy with new wave energy. The song shifts between Apples In Stereo in their Velocity years, Moon Martin in the Hot House, and a pumped up Giorgio Moroder in his bubblegum guise. bit.ly/3KATMXg

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 6d

Taper's Choice put another official release in the books with the release of Prog Hat, rippling through the speakers on knotted guitar strands and enough of Harrington’s organ to make the record title more than just a solid pun. Live favorites "Doner Wrap" & "The Dave Test" included! bit.ly/487IYd2

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 7d

Sunday Mourners tap into the Television/Richard Hell reverence that tracked its spillover from the ‘90s into the early '00s, feeling like kindred spirit to Jonathan Fire*Eater, Railroad Jerk, & pre-ink Strokes. Brittle but barbed, slashing at the unwary listener who wanders too close. bit.ly/48HvAMP

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 7d

Creative Writing has a way of balancing the soft ruffle of power pop with a hidden knife edge.They swing towards the broken skin & bruised hearts of indie outliers, feeling more kinship with the pop overwhelm of Game Theory & the taut discomfort of Toy Love than the classic influences bit.ly/3KuM0yj

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 7d

Sunjammer kick the pace on album opener “Quit," a cut rooted in the mud-flat fire that burns underneath their country-coated jam exterior. With a pound in the piano built for the barroom and a nice toast on the twang, the song tears open the ties on their eponymous new album. bit.ly/48at4i8

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 7d

The new single from Great Lakes burns with a late night intensity, the kind that keeps your eyes open on long drives down winding Upstate roads. Penned as an ode to the late, and sorely missed David Berman, the track uses the songwriter’s last words as central theme bit.ly/486foVn

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 8d

Magic Fig tumbles headlong over the Eiderdown, plucking from the verdant psych-pop gardens of Michelangelo, Wendy & Bonnie, Kangaroo, and Broadcast. “Valerian Tea” spins through baroque touches, letting strums spar with sonorous keys and Inna Showalter’s entrancing vocals. bit.ly/3IDwU9a

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 8d

The announcement that @troubleinmind.bsky.social is shutting down left me pondering the longstanding legacy of the label here on the site. RSTB and TiM took pretty parallel paths over the years and they'll be sorely missed. I put together a mix that explores the label in 60 tracks. bit.ly/46t4XtI

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 8d

Dimples integrate the chugging canter of JJ Cale & R. Stevie Moore into the bones of their blurry pop palette. The opium den drizzle turns the record into a half-dreamt delight, something that haunts the hi-fi through the shift from drifting to drowning in the bottom end of the bottle bit.ly/3KMCiap

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 8d

The New Eves follow their debut with a new single. “Red Brick” offers a knotted, scarred flurry of guitar backed against tense, circling percussion. It finds them pushing through the needle-eye of post-punk and into the kind of tourniquet tight poetry that Patti patented in the ‘70s. bit.ly/3INNfYM

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 9d

Greg Weeks announces his first solo LP in nearly 17 years, reigniting the Language of Stone label in the process. “If The Sun Dies” rekindles the feelings of past works; a warm, inviting track Imbued with a lingering feeling of longing. bit.ly/4nTAD1d

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 9d

"Fair Aegis" turns drone into the primer for the painting, adding brushstrokes of sax and synth that play at the speakers like light through the trees in Knudsen's upstate NY surroundings. The piece raises from the canvas to the canopy, echoing out over the mountains. bit.ly/3VFZgm0

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 12d

Another packed week of music and another Snapshot to take you into the weekend. The round-up includes new cuts from Golden Brown, Liam Kazar, Cate Le Bon, Alex ET, Strange Pilgrim, Dimples, Josephine Network, Pop Filter, Daiistar, Sir Richard Bishop, Babon and more! bit.ly/3VyFWHl

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 12d

One of the absolute best! Gonna miss the TiM’s unmatched ear, but what a legacy to leave. Bill and Lisa forever!

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