Rain and Left- Like Cake and Ice Cream

Easily, my most enjoyable 30 minutes of music this year was spent daydreaming about being the third wheel in the romanticized life of Rain and Left, drifting across the colorful American landscapes and environments chronicled on their record Like Cake And Ice Cream. The duo play impressionistic folk music with tales about invite-only parties on family farms, the savory flavors of vanilla and chocolate, and the fact that cranes can’t fly. 

To some listeners, I could see how this could easily come off as one of the dorkiest records they’ll hear, but perhaps the bizarrely simple lyricism and psychedelic kumbaya instrumentation are the product of the purest form of artistry and songwriting, stripping away anything and everything clouding the truth of a world made up mostly of ordinary experiences. Whichever way you fall on this record, it’s an undeniably therapeutic singalong that exercises the mind’s capacity to enjoy the little things.