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Rain Theory

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In today's modern landscape of throwaway pop and one-hit wonders, Glow presents an album of substance. Beautiful female vocals accompany electronics and guitars to create a fresh sound in the general realm of Everything But the Girl meets the Sundays. My personal favorite is "Regret", which builds over the course of the entire song from a gentle remembrance to a poignant lament of love lost to time. Yeah, it sounds cheesy the way I say it, but believe me, it is a powerful song that always prompts a second or third listen from me whenever I play through the CD (which is often!). You'll be glad you picked this one up.

I just recently purchased "Rain Theory", along with "The Years" (the incredible follow-up to this album) and "Gabriel" (the precursor EP of this), and can not possible recommend this enough to anyone willing to listen. Now this is what music should sound like - flawless musical craftsmanship and heartwrenching, soul shattering vocals. This album, much like Glow's sophomore release, "The Years", is a masterful blend of emotional electronica; dark, sexy trip-hop perfectly married with slightly sweetened synthpop. The result? Absolutely delicious and decadent.

I must say that I am fairly disappointed to see that I am only the fourth person to review this album. While I wouldn't expect Glow to be mainstream, given what passes for music in the mainstream, I am really surprised that more electronica fans aren't really all that familiar with Glow. That statement goes for myself as well, a self-confessed audioslave to pretty much anything and everything trip-hop, synthpop and downtempo, as I just very recently made the plunge into Glow. If only I had known earlier what an indispensible addition their albums would be to my collection.

Don't put this one off any longer! Make Glow a part of your constant rotation and you won't be disappointed. Also, don't forget to pick up a copy of "The Years".

I mean it too. These past few albums that I have reveiwed really have brightened my music collection.

There wasn't much excitement going on in my music collection, so I actually did all these recommendation steps for amazon, and WOW. I am getting really good results, and I'm happy I have been taking these risks.

This CD rocks.

It's heavy enough for me, not so light, but it's got a slightly more goth rock/industrial sound to it. Like Ego Likeness or Faith and the Muse.

The first song "Single" is a perfect mix of these elements, and really starts the album off well. I think this group has a lot of potential and hope they continue putting out music.

The "Gabriel" song is really good. It's fast, and it has some good beats.

The remix, which is also on the CD, is positively stunning. I love it. Changes the feel of the song totally. makes it harder, and darker, and even adds some trance to it.

I'm very thankful for finding this genre, and I can only hope to explore it more and more.

I picked up this album after hearing the songs "Regret" and "Sundays" on Pandora. The great vocals and wonderfully layered music present on all the tracks are what keeps me coming back to listen. It's relaxing, ambient, and flowing in a similar fashion to Delerium.

On the whole, the album is pretty solid. "Regret," "Gabriel," and "Sundays" stick out in my mind as my favorites - they "feel good" to listen to, full of originality and emotion. There are a few I like but not quite as much, like "I Can Forget," which has a less interesting tune to it and feels less... rich... compared to the other songs. Of course, every album has a couple of songs you're not going to like as much, so it's no surprise that they're here, too.

On the whole, I'd recommend it.

As far as I know this is Glow's first full length album and it is a masterpiece. "Single" is such a great opening song. It blew me away when I first heard it. Brooke Edwards is a phenomenal singer, she sings with such emotion. I feel she truly shines on the songs "Sundays" & "All I Ever Wanted". They are slow songs and I think her voice was just made for songs like that. Beautiful. This is one of the few bands where I feel everything is perfect, perfect voice, perfect melodies, perfect lyrics. It all works so well. Really there isn't a song that I skip when I listen to this album.

I highly recommend every single piece of work this band has put out. Get it. Get it all.

Recently I purchased Glow's "Rain Theory" and "The Years." The only word that comes to mind in describing "Rain Theory" is astonishing. Glow's beautiful voice combines flawlessly with delightfully simple synthesized instrumentals to provide song after song of deep musical sensations. Many of the songs on "Rain Theory" feature lyrics focused on lost love. At first glance (or listen) someone might think the music here is to be gloomy or moody, but this is not so. The CD's dominant body of work seems to focus intently on themes of pain and healing such that the songs, to me, celebrate human resilience and passage beyond life challenges.

My own musical tastes vary considerably - from disco and classic 80's to contemporary rap and happy hardcore - and I am very happy to make room on my CD rack for Glow's fantastic musical mastery. I encourage everyone to give Glow a listen and be prepared to reawaken your emotions.

glad i got this cd its great love the music and singing one of the best ive heard in a long time.

I am a 34 year old Real Estate agent who used to own a Dance Club.... Think 10 years ago going to school... My personal leanings musically are more 80's dance and new wave... I got into the Gin Blossoms, Toad The Wet Sprocket, Origin stuff in the early 90's but when Nirvana changed the style of mainstream music I sort of dropped out... Went to dance music and there wasnt much of it... These past few years as I was busy with a family and real job I have not payed much attention but about a year ago I found Synthpop and www.adifferentdrum.com and www.slothradio.com aside from the synthopop and Blank and Jones type stuff I have been listening to I also have liked a lot of the teen-i-bopper music out latley... really top fourtyish as it has a dancable beat and the best writers seem to have gone that direction for the money.... K thats a long intro for why this album BLOWS me away... I have all this stuff playing in my office to keep me and my staff pumped all the time and whats wierd is we have this server (iTunes) where everyone can choose from 90 gigs woths of music and with iTunes you can keep track of number of plays. In the past 3 months with probably 100 new CDs in the server in that time this one is on top of all of them with the Killers coming in second. Its sort of dark, but energy filled, INCREDIBLE vocals and it really makes you want to dance. Please... check out the different mixes of