Your Move, Raincloud – This is What's Left Over From Nothing That's Happened

Your Move, Raincloud – the project of 28-year-old Samuel Francis Cain – practise a kind of fragile, wilfully sentimental indie, which aims at the same sort of whimsical charm found in peers like Over the Wall (with whom Cain shares a label). What’s Left Over, however, lacks their easy enthusiasm and dynamism; instead, YMR tend to indulge in the kind of overblown crescendos associated with acts like Explosions in the Sky.

Given the plethora of instruments deployed here – piano, accordion, banjo, glockenspiel and violin, among others – What’s Left Over’s sonic tapestry is well-placed to avoid the pitfalls associated with this kind of emotive tone. Yet YMR can’t resist employing familiar structural cliches, as on Double Exposure, which progresses from a Codeine-esque sparse vulnerability into a stodgy, distortion-led climax. There’s an intriguing emotional rawness here, but Cain still needs to develop his own voice as a songwriter in order to channel it.