“The Rain King is about trying to navigate personal boundaries with your ex. In this case, when you’re out at the same party. I like to make a lot of references when I write lyrics; songs I’m listening to, books I’m reading, shows I’m watching. So when you’re listening, you might notice little references to The X Files, Stephen King and my favourite Smokey Robinson song.” says Ruairi Burns about the single.“The video is actual live footage taken from everyone’s favourite public-access television dance show, ‘Move it if You’ve Got it’, hosted by Dave Tremblane. Of course, we totally made that up. But we just loved the idea of doing a video that looked like a segment of ‘Chic-A-Go-Go’.”
It’s been an eventful five years since Jacob first started playing shows. The emo revivalists have undergone line-up changes and have played up and down the east coast with an impressive cast of national and international bands: Against Me!, Luca Brasi, Tigers Jaw, Joyce Manor, Hockey Dad, Trophy Eyes, Tired Lion and Ceres, to name but a few. The band also had the opportunity of performing at the Yours and Owls Festival in 2017.