Be No Rain Announces Debut LP; Shares VHS Tape Videos For “All Night, Right?”

London-based indie pop artist Sam Frankl, also known as Be No Rain, has spent the last decade or so compiling song ideas into what has become his debut album Strawberry Backstory, out later this year. His experience as a DJ around the Americas and his musical upbringing has lead him to a style that blends together rock, pop, samba, synth-wave, and electronic that is uniquely his own.

From the release is the indie rock-forward single “All Night, Right?” which combines the retro synth stylings of the ’80s with the guitar-po revival sounds of Bombay Bicycle Club and Two Door Cinema Club. Covered with the glossy feel of a crowded club, the new single was written about the repetitive pattern of partying and nightlife:

“[It} began life as a jaded song,” Frankl shares. “I wrote it at a time when I felt like I’d experienced every iteration of nightlife available to me. It was about feeling unbearably alone in a crowd, how experiences endlessly repeated and how even new faces seemed eerily familiar. It was also about coming to terms with the fact that being more restrained and abstemious was making me feel better than I ever had. Ever precocious, at the time I thought I was standing on the threshold of maturity and that my youth was receding. Now I see it as a more hopeful moment, a farewell to a certain kind of youthful abandon and a realisation that a degree of self-care is a gateway to new experiences and an escape from certain destructive cycles.”

The song’s melancholic dance vibe finds its match with the VHS camcorder music video. Depicting the replaying of memories as video footage, the video’s protagonist relives heartbreak and his self-destructive cycle. It coincides with the newly released video for “Deadweight”, the album’s lead single, sharing in the Frankl’s character but this time through first-hand experience.

You can find both videos below and head “All Night, Right?” on our new Starting Line-Up playlist.

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