Let's Hear It For The Boy

posted in: Artist Features • Pop

Talain Rayne is shipwrecked. Thus begins Talain Rayne’s Kickstarter manifesto, a hilarious, touching plea for donations to help the singer-songwriter get a new set of wheels and get out of Dodge. (Dodge being Phoenixville, PA.) Rayne’s ability to raise more than $12K is due in part to his uncanny resemblance to Tom Hanks in Cast Away. But it’s also due to his huge talent. Rayne crafts swooning, emotive indie pop with stomping drums, cascading pianos, twinkling xylophone and awesome boy-girl harmonies. From his dreamy meditations on sibling revelry in Dear Sister, Your Brother to the fierce vulnerability in 16, Rayne knows how to pack a visceral punch. Probably one of his most moving songs is Family Wall, written for his father. I take back everything I said, all because I love you, dad, he croons. There aren’t a lot of dudes singing love songs to their dads out there, which makes this one all the more touching. Hey Talain ” we love you, man.