The Goodstock Project have had more than enough of This Rain in their latest single and performance video — showcasing today on Tinnitist.
As the saying goes, “When it rains, it pours.” Which is to say: When something goes wrong, it seems more things go wrong and things will never be right again. The frustration and despair of this experience is captured in U.K. group’s newest release.
The song opens with vocalist June singing how tired she is of the endless rain she’s enduring, backed by acoustic guitar and piano (both played by Ol). The bass (Jon) and drums (Ben) come crashing in by the second verse:
“I’ve black-lidded eyes,
And there are cold stormy skies,
The easy escape is the one we can’t take
Another reason we all must apologize.”
The band say the song is about second chances. It’s written from the perspective of a positive person constantly being faced with a negative response from another. The ‘rain’ is a metaphor for an incessant downpour of ‘reasons why not’ — someone raining on their parade.
The accompanying video captures the group’s individual performances on their phones. These raw takes were then given to their production editor Speaks, who cleaned up the takes and added the final touches. The band jokingly refer to this as “the 2020 lockdown method.”
Originally conceived in the spring of that year, The Goodstock Project are a collaborative effort, initially designed to see if it was possible to make music together without being in the same room. By 2022, they had created a series of singles that included The Drop, We Mean Well and Be The One, which would be gathered onto ther first EP Remote, released in October 2022.
Watch the video for This Rain above, hear more from Remote below, and learn more about The Goodstock Project at their website, Twitter and Instagram.
