Just Rain
by Jessica's Brother
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album140g black vinyl, with printed inner sleeve, in a reverse board outer sleeve. Shrinkwrapped with a download code inside.
NB: this should ship before the album release date (26th November), but we're at the mercy of vinyl pressing schedules currently. We're scheduled to receive stock early November, but hearing of more frequent delays, so bear with us...
Includes unlimited streaming of Just Rain via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.ships out within 7 daysedition of 300Purchasable with gift card£16 GBP or more
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Record/Vinyl + Digital AlbumA copy of Just Rain on black vinyl, plus a copy of the debut, self titled album from Jessica's Brother on black vinyl.
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital AlbumGlass mastered CD in a reverse board 4 panel digifile CD sleeve.
Includes unlimited streaming of Just Rain via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.ships out within 7 daysPurchasable with gift card£10 GBP or more
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital AlbumA copy of the new album Just Rain, plus a copy of the debut self titled album from Jessica's Brother.
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Just Rain
03:14
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I’m waking up
Got a fire in my cup
It’s not just tea
It’s a lot
I’m just waiting for a signal from above
And in your sleep
When you’re free
You turn monsters into trees
One by one up to the seas
Turning darkness evergreen
You’ve been trying (I’ve been trying)
Our heads are holy in silence
It’s all the same, all the same
Woopsie-daisy
Just rain
So open up your heart
It can help to wear a mask
I tried a pendent made of glass
When it broke I found it hard to laugh
And it can be revolting
Especially when you’re dreaming
Could be death, could be just teething
Losing sight can be relieving
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Finding Snowdrop
03:03
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Like the leaves on the trees
You know I felt more at ease
When the autumn came and made its peace
Holding onto the dreaded time release
Of the body, mind, soul and knees
I’m already popping my friends are loving
But we’re all lost and know relatively nothing
But I don’t worry no more
No I try not to worry, no more
Oh me, catch that scene
Everybody else is turning green but me
Talk about it, you’ll see
(Somebody’s out to steal your rhythm)
Hey, hey, come my way
Hold my hand it’ll be ok
Waylaid
Snowdrop, don’t rock
(Really makes you glad to be alive)
So I got back sat and chewed the fat
Holy rollers never made me feel like that
And all the drugs and the dreaded sleep aside
I came out feeling better than feeling alive
Though as I mentioned I don’t know relatively anything
That would count as a model to existing
Could be it’s all just a matter of persisting
Taking your time to calculate a feeling
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Boat Song
04:04
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Rock-a-bye, well rock
Over the water
I jumped in to feel free
Though my crew were displeased
Don’t you know about
Weil’s disease?
So we went on home
I left the river alone
I climbed up the tallest of trees
And my crew were displeased
Think of your head and your knees
You know I play it safe most days
You know I quiver in retreat
So when the time comes
Scrape the mud
From your feet
So I take me down
To that corner of town
Where every Brick Pollitt
Has gathered around
And the new day is here
But the old’s right behind
And all that we’ve done so it’s yours
So it’s mine
You know I play it right sometimes
And you, show me how
Hollow log
Troubled water
Living bough
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I ate the peach
It didn’t anger me
And the cold went running
Well the bees were on the streets
For as far as I could see
And I knew nothing else
Except the way your body felt
Call it in lock the door
Clear the floor
And take my hand
(And roll me when you can)
You know I had one foot in the void
Now I’m beyond buoyed
(Beyond Buoyed, beyond)
So much sea but there’s land ahoy!
Beyond buoyed,
(Beyond buoyed, beyond…)
And I am you and you are me
A cellular mimicry
I am blue, I am green, I am red, I run obscene
And you split my light into a rainbow beam
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Darling I Wanted To Know
03:41
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Darling I wanted to know
Why won’t you touch me anymore?
My hair’s still curly
My eyes are still blue
Why won’t you do those things you used to do?
Thomas you never come to bed
And when you do your eyes are swollen and red
And in the days you mourn
Though for what I’m not sure
So I’d rather be in my world instead
The front door was open
But no-one came through
I waited for someone
I waited for you
I’m sick I think my pain is unique
You’re a dick you know you just need some sleep
Just a quick fix and I’ll be on my feet
Why won’t you please come back to me?
Why won’t you
Why won’t you
Why won’t you
Why won’t you please come back to me
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Caroline
02:02
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I’m in a state, don’t look so good
I stayed up late to go as far as I could
And the bags beneath my eyes
They could hold a jar of wine
Oh what did you do all this time?
What did you find Caroline?
So I took a walk, took a good long look
And I can still feel the way you shook
And the path got thin and thinner
But I saw fire, I saw you shimmer
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Little One
03:35
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Little One
Look what you’ve done
Little One
Well you’re only young once
The first time I looked into those eyes I was a changed man
And all the love songs couldn’t touch how it felt then
And what went up well it never came down
It got stuck in the sky over London Town
And at the age of seventeen I nearly killed my two best friends
Avoiding a pheasant crashing into a fence
At 60mph, the car was on fire
But the pheasant lived on being none the wiser
And Hark! The Herald angel sings
Well I’ve got a brand new tv screen
4k picture it’s a love machine
Debt trail longer than my uni fees
In the mountains, you’ll find the ash berries
It’s a small fruit, though it may just keep you going
In the dark night, when you feel that it’s something
Going on forward even if you’re stumbling
And how many people get to talk in your head?
Have you ever left your body for a second and returned scared?
Little One it’s not all bad
It’s like your favourite band’s playing but they’re not quite there
And April, May made oak explode
Stay put man you never ever know
There’s blue in fire be blue perspire
Just come back and tell us what you know
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Full Swing
04:27
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Cunts out tonight in full-swing
Wouldn’t even know how to do my thing
Even if I could, even if I could
And I made some mistakes,
Cut my own brakes
Living in hiding of late
Roll me only
R-Roll me baby
Roll me over
I choked on my whiskey
Roll me only
R-Roll me baby
Roll me over
Down to the AA
Taste bedlam, bile and defeat
Sack of shit even my cat’s leaving me
(And it worries me how much I love her)
Oh I’ve no-one to blame
When each night runs the same
No silver-lining just rain
I only wanted good times
But all I have are bad times
Mud in my hair,
Sick in my shoes,
Losing my mind but worst of all, losing you
R-Roll me, Roll me, Roll me
I’m queasy
R-Roll me, roll me, roll me
Baby
R-Roll me, Roll me, roll me
I’m queasy
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Big Boy Now
01:16
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You know I could stay up all night
And eat ice-cream in the sunrise
Make a potion in my treehouse
Turn the dog into a door-mouse
I can count from A to Z
There’s no-one stopping me
Ever been anyone you know in school?
Could swim the width of the leisure pool?
Well I can
So don’t try to kid me
I’m a big boy now
My friends up here with me
Say you’re smelly anyhow
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about
Releases November 26th 2021.
‘Just Rain’ is the second album from London three piece Jessica’s Brother, comprising songwriter Tom Charleston, The Wave Pictures’ Jonny Helm on drums and Charlie Higgs on bass.
Stitching together a variety of influences, from crunching indie-rock, to gothic country and contemplative psych folk, Jessica’s Brother create the sound of a band coming together and getting caught up in the rush of starting afresh.
The disintegration of a long-term relationship, coinciding with a global fracturing, provided a catalyst for ‘Just Rain’. The songs explore a relentless collision of melancholy and resilience alongside themes of comedy, agency, and hope
The title track lays this out with an opening burst of slacker rock as Tom reflects back over a passage of time that feels like persistent unrelenting rain. Vacillating between despair and defiance, we uncover the strength to shrug it off as “just rain”; after all, as the track draws to its conclusion “losing sight can be relieving”.
Interestingly, the lyric, “open up your heart, it can help to wear a mask”, was written before the pandemic had properly struck in the UK.
‘Finding Snowdrop’ is a spiritual rebirth gone wrong, influenced by the rambling poetry and hooks found in Yoni Wolf’s Why? and Bill Callahan. In spite of failure, the potential for growth remains. This budding, on an ageing tree, is celebrated in the joyous rhythms, off-kilter harmonies and a fizzing guitar solo.
On 'Full Swing’ both the baritone of Tom’s delivery and lyrics conjure the darkness of the everyday: ”cut my own brakes, living in hiding of late” are reminiscent of The Handsome Family’s wonderful way of transposing the tradition of murder ballads and the bleakest tales to the modern.
A more expansive and luxuriant sound runs through ‘Just Rain’, than the sparser Silver Jews / Jason Molina atmosphere of their 2018 debut, from the gutsy alt-rock of the title track to the off kilter pop of ‘Little One', reminiscent of Sparklehorse, a tale of young love and youthful exuberance.
Jessica’s Brother formed in October 2016. Jonny and Charlie worked together in a framing business and had often talked about collaborating in a band together. Fate intervened when Jonny’s girlfriend Jessica introduced him to her brother Tom, and they found a songwriter in waiting. Their debut, eponymous, album released in 2018 was warmly received.
‘Just Rain’ was produced and engineered by Shuta Shinoda (Hot Chip, Ghost Poet, Anna Meredith) at Hackney Road Studios during the summer of 2020. The album features Dan Mayfield’s elegant touch on violin (he has performed with artists from Daniel Johnston to Allo Darlin’), and new female voices from Polimana (a jazz vocalist from the SoCal suburbia) and Shantha Roberts (whose voice has graced Glasgow’s reggae sound system Argonaut Sounds).
The eponymous Jessica Jane Charleston, a painter and printmaker, provides the meteorological juxtaposition to the album in the visuals, the warmth of a giant sun looming over the contorted figure, rising up to fight another day. Tom was drawn to the hotter colours this time round as opposed to the moodier blue palette of the debut. The colours and figures convey a sense of revival after a period of hibernation. It fits well alongside the band’s hiatus throughout the pandemic and their much awaited return.
With an at times folkloric narrative, ‘Just Rain’ is both poetic and playful retaining throughout a thread of darkness.
The record takes a step forward in terms of production while maintaining the band’s rough around the edges charm. It is an intimate affair punctuated with louder and more unwieldy moments. A true story revolving around a relationship and a world falling apart.
“A jingling rush that would have headed John Peel’s Festive 50 in another life” The Guardian
“A band to fall in love with... there is no derivative pastiche or homage here. It all feels right, and, as with the best bands, they make it sound new” Saatchi Magazine
“A stunning combination of gothic-country and 1960’s inspired psych-folk, simultaneously downbeat and expansive” For The Rabbits
‘Just Rain’ is the second album from London three piece Jessica’s Brother, comprising songwriter Tom Charleston, The Wave Pictures’ Jonny Helm on drums and Charlie Higgs on bass.
Stitching together a variety of influences, from crunching indie-rock, to gothic country and contemplative psych folk, Jessica’s Brother create the sound of a band coming together and getting caught up in the rush of starting afresh.
The disintegration of a long-term relationship, coinciding with a global fracturing, provided a catalyst for ‘Just Rain’. The songs explore a relentless collision of melancholy and resilience alongside themes of comedy, agency, and hope
The title track lays this out with an opening burst of slacker rock as Tom reflects back over a passage of time that feels like persistent unrelenting rain. Vacillating between despair and defiance, we uncover the strength to shrug it off as “just rain”; after all, as the track draws to its conclusion “losing sight can be relieving”.
Interestingly, the lyric, “open up your heart, it can help to wear a mask”, was written before the pandemic had properly struck in the UK.
‘Finding Snowdrop’ is a spiritual rebirth gone wrong, influenced by the rambling poetry and hooks found in Yoni Wolf’s Why? and Bill Callahan. In spite of failure, the potential for growth remains. This budding, on an ageing tree, is celebrated in the joyous rhythms, off-kilter harmonies and a fizzing guitar solo.
On 'Full Swing’ both the baritone of Tom’s delivery and lyrics conjure the darkness of the everyday: ”cut my own brakes, living in hiding of late” are reminiscent of The Handsome Family’s wonderful way of transposing the tradition of murder ballads and the bleakest tales to the modern.
A more expansive and luxuriant sound runs through ‘Just Rain’, than the sparser Silver Jews / Jason Molina atmosphere of their 2018 debut, from the gutsy alt-rock of the title track to the off kilter pop of ‘Little One', reminiscent of Sparklehorse, a tale of young love and youthful exuberance.
Jessica’s Brother formed in October 2016. Jonny and Charlie worked together in a framing business and had often talked about collaborating in a band together. Fate intervened when Jonny’s girlfriend Jessica introduced him to her brother Tom, and they found a songwriter in waiting. Their debut, eponymous, album released in 2018 was warmly received.
‘Just Rain’ was produced and engineered by Shuta Shinoda (Hot Chip, Ghost Poet, Anna Meredith) at Hackney Road Studios during the summer of 2020. The album features Dan Mayfield’s elegant touch on violin (he has performed with artists from Daniel Johnston to Allo Darlin’), and new female voices from Polimana (a jazz vocalist from the SoCal suburbia) and Shantha Roberts (whose voice has graced Glasgow’s reggae sound system Argonaut Sounds).
The eponymous Jessica Jane Charleston, a painter and printmaker, provides the meteorological juxtaposition to the album in the visuals, the warmth of a giant sun looming over the contorted figure, rising up to fight another day. Tom was drawn to the hotter colours this time round as opposed to the moodier blue palette of the debut. The colours and figures convey a sense of revival after a period of hibernation. It fits well alongside the band’s hiatus throughout the pandemic and their much awaited return.
With an at times folkloric narrative, ‘Just Rain’ is both poetic and playful retaining throughout a thread of darkness.
The record takes a step forward in terms of production while maintaining the band’s rough around the edges charm. It is an intimate affair punctuated with louder and more unwieldy moments. A true story revolving around a relationship and a world falling apart.
“A jingling rush that would have headed John Peel’s Festive 50 in another life” The Guardian
“A band to fall in love with... there is no derivative pastiche or homage here. It all feels right, and, as with the best bands, they make it sound new” Saatchi Magazine
“A stunning combination of gothic-country and 1960’s inspired psych-folk, simultaneously downbeat and expansive” For The Rabbits
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released November 16, 2021
Mostly recorded at Hackney Road Studios with engineer Shuta Shinoda. Partly recorded in Tom's room.
Mixed by Tom Charleston (except Boat Song, mixed by Shuta Shinoda).
Mastered by Shuta Shinoda.
All songs written by Tom Charleston.
Album artwork by Jessica Jane Charleston.
Jessica's Brother are:
Tom Charleston, Charlie Higgs and Jonny Helm,
with guest appearances from Dan Mayfield, Shantha Roberts and Polimana.
Mostly recorded at Hackney Road Studios with engineer Shuta Shinoda. Partly recorded in Tom's room.
Mixed by Tom Charleston (except Boat Song, mixed by Shuta Shinoda).
Mastered by Shuta Shinoda.
All songs written by Tom Charleston.
Album artwork by Jessica Jane Charleston.
Jessica's Brother are:
Tom Charleston, Charlie Higgs and Jonny Helm,
with guest appearances from Dan Mayfield, Shantha Roberts and Polimana.
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