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CrackyMcCrackerson · Joined: 26 Dec 2007 Posts: 145 Location: Kansas

Just pre-ordered this and and very excited. What is the story with The Rain?

jefflewis · Joined: 21 Nov 2005 Posts: 1486

We just played on this BBC4 show called Loose Ends, though I feel like my interview was a bit lame, I was too tired to think clearly! Everybody else they interviewed on the show was so charming and witty, I felt like a downer. Anyway, we played a pretty good rendition of the current version of WWPRD, and the 3-song single comes out on Tuesday.
"The Rain" is basically the same rhythm section that I started working with on the recent Peter Stampfel record, Isabel Martin on bass and Heather Wagner on drums.
It's been years since I had bandmates who actually live in the same city as me, so it's really great to be able to just write and record and rehearse and play local shows like a normal band! I forgot what that was like! It was so many years that Jack was living in Oregon and Dave was living in England, it just made it so hard to ever work on stuff together if we weren't on tour. But I'm sure I'll play with Jack and Dave again when we can. For the time being I'm pretty excited about working on stuff with Isabel and Heather, maybe we can do a full album if we have time this fall/winter.
The 3-song single was recorded one day last month, we recorded about 5 or 6 songs that day and I thought these 3 came out the best. I haven't had a chance to listen to the vinyl, I just got a copy this weekend from Rough Trade but I don't think I'll have a chance to hear it until I get back home to my turntable in mid-September! Unless we stay at somebody's house with a turntable.

CrackyMcCrackerson · Joined: 26 Dec 2007 Posts: 145 Location: Kansas

Mine came early and I just gave it a spin and I loved it. It sounds great and these girls are great with you. I'd love to hear a record of all stuff like this.

WWPRD sounds like the angriest song you've ever written and it is so good. I love it.

AFB · Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 245 Location: Bristol, UK

Teach me to slack off from the message board, only just realised they new songs were out. Tell you what though, I love Jack and Dave's very individual style and these new songs are in a reliably similar vein, but there's something very new and delicious about their execution - very solid playing and a new energy. Would be very exciting to see a full release with this backing.