BRYANNA RAIN’s “Bryanna Rain Boxset / 2x Vinyl Reissue”: A 33, Track Time Capsule Marking the End of One Era and the Start of Another Album

Richmond-based singer, songwriter, and electronic wave maker Bryanna Rain has never let her feet rest on the ground, and with her latest 33-track box set in tandem with a double, vinyl reissue 2X, she demonstrates in grand style her ongoing creative evolution and her prolific output of new work. The 3X format serves as an exhaustive journey of the music phases of the last half of the decade, the long-lost, in-studio outtakes from the Arcades sessions heralding her move to a more dreamy, electronic, heavy direction, among other things, after the release of the artist's records in 2019.

The thing that stands out with this announcement is its truth. Rain himself refers to the undertaking as “house cleaning, ” and it puts the record straight, to paraphrase that, as it is a sort of airing out the vault, turning pages, and clearing creative space for what will follow. In the recording are fragments of past trials, chart-topping songs like “Blaming Eternia, ” “GhostBaby,” as well as her audacious cover of Tasmin Archer’s “Sleeping Satellite, ” and two EPs that not only document a musical turning point but also their title: EPisodes and Petrichor.

The double vinyl version is a very “tell-all” kind of record, for sure. It merges her debut EP with the next one, presenting the complete transition of her pre-EDMM sensibilities when she later went into house, remix culture, and 12” vinyl aesthetics, resulting in a kind of full circle. It is a walk down memory lane of the fact that the creative artist Rain has always been on the verge of reinvention and never has the fear of transformation.

Rather than aiming to be a smooth review, The Boxset is an honesty check of the artist’s development. To name the rough parts, the stylistic leaps, the genre detours, these are the things that make such an album significant. The loudest and clearest echo of the refrain “You can reflect on the past, ” she says, “but you can’t live there., This record, which signifies the end of one creative cycle, and her next move could quite possibly be her riskiest yet, given her storyline.

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