British artist Eden Rain has just unveiled one of her most moving releases, called ‘Great Nothing’.
Inspired by a friendship falling apart, the song is not only lyrically powerful, but also beautifully produced. In equal measures, the track is epic and cinematic, yet also feels fragile and vulnerable. Rain explains:
“I wrote ‘Great Nothing’, about the rise and fall of a frienduationship – which is a word I’ve (maybe?) made up to describe the experience of a friend confess feelings for you and everything gets all weird and messy and tangly. I feel like when Conway and I wrote this song it was like putting all my frustrations of every friendship that went off-piste or person I had liked that hadn’t liked me back, or had but at the wrong time, into a meat grinder and … out came Great Nothing. It’s like the opposite of a great love, it’s the mourning of the potential of a relationship and the confusion and the angst to put everything back where it was.. and all the sinking feelings that come with it.”
To date, Rain’s music has amassed more than half a million streams on Spotify. We expect this artist to evolve into one of the UK’s biggest indie-pop newcomers, so keep her on your radars.