Castanets - "Out For The West" (Stereogum Premiere)

Raymond Raposa has been giving us itinerant folk songs as Castanets since the heyday of freak-folk, but he’s survived and evolved. “Out For The West,” the lead single from Castanets’ upcoming Decimation Blues, provides ample evidence of that metamorphosis. What could have been a gothic fireside strummer instead blooms into an understated but steady digital