Young Fathers - Rain Or Shine

Fresh from winning the Mercury Music Prize (and being decidedly ambivalent towards it), Edinburgh’s Young Fathers aren’t content with resting on their laurels. The almost-industrial sounding ‘Rain or Shine’ blunts the edge of Death Grips’ intense volume, and turns an influence into something decidedly more pop. That’s after a chirpy staccato verse, boasting “I’ve got Jesus in my life… demons in my life”, a straight-forward melody with an underlying burr of bass which lends the composition an intensity that facilitates a deep, raspy, yet almost whispered verse that submerges into sirens, and a chorus that builds and builds to a shuddering crescendo.