| Rain | |
| Type: | ep |
| Artist: | 40 Below Summer |
| Cover: | 40BelowRain.jpg |
| Released: | Late 2000, July 31, 2007 |
| Recorded: | July–August 2000[1] |
| Length: | 49:00 (2007) 25:00 (2000) |
| Label: | Crash Music (2007) Independent (2000) |
| Prev Title: | Side Show Freaks |
| Prev Year: | 1999 |
| Next Title: | Invitation to the Dance |
| Next Year: | 2001 |
Rain is an EP by 40 Below Summer. The band's much sought-after independent EP was originally released in 2000 before they signed with London-Sire Records. The EP was reissued on July 31, 2007 via Crash Music Inc.
The EP was recorded and mixed in July and August 2000. It was mastered by Al Silverman at ARF Digital, New York City.[1]
In their 2001 review, Blabbermouth.net wrote "Although there is nothing on here that can be considered innovative or ground-breaking, 40 Below Summer possess a knack for mixing huge, hard-sounding grooves with near-first-rate quality vocal hooks, and they do so with a greater level of conviction than most of their counterparts. Among the best examples of this is the track "Endorphines", an excellently crafted number that starts out in a laid-back fashion but climaxes with what is arguably the catchiest chorus on the CD—a potential rock radio hit in the making."[2]
The tracks "Falling Down" and "Jonesin" would be rerecorded for the band's first and only major label release Invitation to the Dance. "Faces" was also rerecorded during the Mourning After era as "P.S. I Hate You". It appeared on the 2003 video game .
The original version had Faces and Jonesin' reversed, as is what is listed on the back of the re-release but, in fact, Faces is track 4 and Jonesin' is track 5 on the re-release.
Max Illidge: vocals
Joey D'Amico: guitar
Jordan Plingos: guitar
Hector Graziani: bass (credited but does not perform)
Carlos Aguilar: drums
Steve Ferierra: bass (original bassist, left after the recording)