| More Rain | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | M. Ward |
| Cover: | MoreRainCover.jpg |
| Genre: | Americana, indie folk |
| Label: | Merge |
| Prev Title: | A Wasteland Companion |
| Prev Year: | 2012 |
| Next Title: | What a Wonderful Industry |
| Next Year: | 2018 |
More Rain is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter M. Ward. The album was released on March 4, 2016, on Merge Records and Bella Union. More Rain is Ward's first solo album since 2012's A Wasteland Companion, having released Volume Three and Classics with Zooey Deschanel as She & Him in the interim as well as recording and producing other artists.
Ward began working on More Rain in 2012, initially experimenting with layering his own vocals to create a doo-wop record. After collaborating with other artists on the record like Peter Buck, k.d. lang, and Neko Case, the sound of the album went in a different direction, described as "true gotta-stay-indoors, rainy-season record that looks upwards through the weather while reflecting on his past."[1]
More Rain received a weighted average score of 72 out of 100, based on eleven critical reviews, by review aggregator Metacritic, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[2] A review in the April 2016 issue of Uncut said, "The lack of ironic twists is both slightly unsettling and hugely refreshing,"[3] and David Harvey of Record Collector called the album "a dreamy deluge".[4] Andrew Gordon of The Skinny said the album is "decisively easygoing", after saying, "If you're scanning these pages for a record your granny might be into, this is the one."[5] Dean Van Nguyen of Consequence of Sound gave the album a D+, or a 33 out of 100 according to Metacritic, stating that, "All the expected points have been hit on More Rain, but the record comes off as slack and slapdash."[6]
All songs written by M. Ward except "You're So Good to Me" written by Brian Wilson