Young Fathers - Rain Or Shine review • DIY Magazine

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.

This is a track of dark and light. That “I’ll be there rain or shine” refrain sounds optimistic, but there’s an inherent grittiness to the track that makes it truly compelling. And then it ends. Just out of nowhere. Sorry, but it does. Not trying to spoil the track for you, but it just… ends with a fantastic, confrontational cadence. Young Fathers are coming back to run the game again, still on their own terms.

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