Bringing It Back

Comprising former members of IQ and Frost*, Rain have approached the challenges of creating their “difficult” second album with both passion and flair. But, as drummer Andy Edwards and keyboard player Rob Groucutt reveal, Radio Silence wasn’t without its stressors and things could have been very different had their 2020 debut not been so well accepted…

Rich Wilson

Andy Edwards is the type of person who could engage in a lively debate on the virtues of prog for several hours. Indeed, it’s those opinions that have shaped the content of his burgeoning YouTube channel, and while delving into that would be an intriguing conversation, it’s Rain’s Radio Silence that’s our current focus. The album is the follow-up to their debut, Singularity, a recording that, despite being somewhat tricky to categorise, appealed to a significant number of fans, as Edwards explains. “We felt that we’d delivered a real full-on prog album with songs about magicians with odd time signatures and with a conceptual continuity,” he says. “When it came out, I think a lot of people found it hard to pigeonhole the sound of it and that’s something that…

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