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Issue 55 / 2013
Guestlist recommends: The family rain
Bath based brotherly trio, The Family Rain's raucous rock 'n' roll will shake your bones to the core.
Officially formed in 2011, The Family Rain (or
more precisely: William, Ollie and Timothy
Walter) have been playing music together
for years. With that close-knit sibling
understanding tied down perfectly, the trio
are currently staking a genuine claim to be
the best new British rock band around at the
moment.
With heavy backing from Universal Music
Group subsidiary Mercury Records, the
band's upcoming debut album has been
recorded with Arctic Monkeys' producer
Jim Abbiss and is destined to be huge.
Illustrating the band's punchy immediacy,
the video to their recent single 'Pushing
It' follows a female boxing fight, taking the
viewer through a couple of bruising rounds
both visually and sonically. With venomous
riffs, blues chord progressions, and gritty,
wild vocals all being central to their growing
repertoire of tunes, The Family Rain are
incredibly likeable in so many ways.
The band's latest single 'Reason To Die' is
perhaps their most blunt and aggressive
track so far, hurtling by with a mechanical
clunk and roaring passion that will stir the
rock star within us all.
With dates supporting Miles Kane and Jake
Bugg coming up and their own headline tour
(that includes a headline slot at London's
Heaven on November 25th) to look forward
to, these boys are going places in the
foreseeable future.
www.thefamilyrain.com
OUR PLAYLIST
We present you with 4 of the hottest tracks out now...
Dream Koala
Odyssey
Society
14 Hours
Lovelife
Midnight Swimming
Vinyl Thief
Smooth
