Castanets
City Of Refuge

Freak folk. Say it with me. Freak. Folk. It’s a strange one isn’t itMany have dubbed the likes of Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom and Sufjan Stevens ...

Castanets is lonesome, melancholic, bric-a-brac folk with an experimental edge, like a Cat Power at her most sombre moments being broadcast across the...

Despite its title, it wasn't in an urban metropolis, but a motel room in the Nevada desert that Ray Raposa - the singing, songwriting soul of Castanet...

Castanets' Raymond Raposa has never shied from mortality. His folk-electronic hybrids have often romanticized death, which isn't the same thing as hon...

If Syd Barrett had been part of The Basement Tapes, it might have sounded like this. Oddly disjointed rhythms that nevertheless sound ancient and trad...

If you drive outside of Las Vegas, north on any number of roads—Interstate 15, Route 93, Route 95, or even smaller routes like 167—the spread out city...

City of Refuge, the fourth full-length from Ray Raposa’s avant folk project Castanets, comes armed with a mighty compelling back story: Waking to a de...