Brit proggers Rain have just released their second album, Radio Silence, through Giant Electric Pea. The band features drummer Andy Edwards (ex-IQ, Frost*) and bassist John Jowitt (also ex-IQ), along with Rob Groucutt (keys/vocals) and Mirron Webb (guitar/vocals, formerly of Hey Jester). The new album is the follow-up to the fourpiece’s well-received debut, 2020’s Singularity, and sees them develop their sound on a number of levels. As Edwards enthusiastically tells Prog, “It’s everything: it’s heavier, it’s louder, it’s more expansive. It’s just a much bigger production all round.”
Explaining how Radio Silence differs from their debut, Edwards says that, whereas the first was made during lockdown, with the band confined to their own homes and home studios, “this one has been done in full, big recording studios, so that all…