If It's Too Loud...

Photo by Olivia Perillo Norway born and Lafayette residing musician Rainy Eyes is back with a new single. "A Little Dream" is just a perfect country torch song. It resides in an area that recalls vintage country and a more modern country sound. It's a simply gorgeous song that shows off the pop leaning side of alt-country without coming close to pop country. The song is accentuated by the pedal steel playing of the late Chris Stafford, which is what gives "A Little Dream" it's vintage adjacent sound. There's also Rainy Eyes' voice, which dances on the line between country and pop. This is the type of song that even those who hate all things country or Americana won't be able to resist. Rainy Eyes says of her latest single: "'A Little Dream' is a deceptive love story. When you feel so strongly about someone, but you question whether or not it is real or if you’re just high on the feeling. You can love someone, but that doesn’t mean th...

Photo by Olivia Penilo Rainy Eyes was born in Bergen, Norway, moved to Denmark at age eighteen, met an American free jazz musician, eloped and moved to San Francisco at nineteen, had a son, and moved to Louisiana after her marriage fell apart. Her latest single, "You Just Want What You Can't Have" is a multi-genre song that will probably get labelled Americana. It contains elements of country, soul, blues, jazz, and rock in this perfect mixture that feels completely familiar without being at all boring. It's the type of song that you're going to enjoy based solely on the guitar intro, and be enamored with by the end. Everything in "You Just Want What You Can't Have" melds together perfectly. Rainy Eyes' vocals, guitar, keyboards, backing vocals, drums... it all makes this a perfect song. Rainy Eyes says of her new single: "As William Bell wrote with perfect eloquence and Otis Redding sang with deep conviction, 'You don’t miss your water ...