Ladies, gentlemen, and lovers of great music—get ready to welcome the incomparable BRYANNA RAIN to our blog! Hailing from Richmond, VA, this visionary singer-songwriter continues to redefine the boundaries of modern pop and experimental soundscapes. On November 3rd, she unveiled a monumental 33-track, 3-box-set vinyl reissue, featuring her acclaimed works: EPisodes, Petrichor, and The Arcade Demo Sessions. Each album captures a different chapter of her artistry—blending emotion, atmosphere, and imagination in ways that only Bryanna Rain can. Let’s dive into these sonic worlds and explore what makes each one such a mesmerizing experience.

We start this journey with “Pilot”. The song is quite beautiful, and it opens with some lovely, positive melodies that will captivate listeners, as it did.

Bryanna Rain’s 33-track box set isn’t just a collection of albums — it’s a living universe. Across EPisodes, Petrichor, and The Arcade Demo Sessions, the Richmond-based singer-songwriter blurs the line between technology and humanity, crafting soundscapes that shimmer with emotion and mystery.

If EPisodes were a film, it would open in a haze of light and color — half-memory, half-dream. Here, Bryanna explores the inner architecture of the mind: where identity flickers, love dissolves, and meaning rewires itself.

Her label’s release strategy was based on putting out a panoply of singles, and that made up her full releases, and PILOT was a brief opener to my first set- “FERRETHEAD(S)” became a plural statement about my politics-it was about more than just one asinine man by this time. “BLAMING ETERNIA” came about because she wanted to experiment with an alter ego called “Eternia” based on her love of rough sketch anime in comic books and on video. “DREAMING” was a synth wave delight, and she also covered Tasmin Archer’s “SATELLITE.” This version had an almost electronic folk feel with a touch of country. Her version of Wedlock’s “String Theory” called “THE DIRGE,” had made it onto this one as well as “GHOSTBABY” with Sable Minds and a backing female vocalist. “SURESHOT” was her pro-vaccination anthem with production from Ady Dee Jay. The whole idea behind her next set was to open things up and give our B sides and remixes a chance to see the light of day, and her mood pointed toward a city scene during and after a November rain, hence the title. She is fond of short interludes, and “TRAVELOGUE” was a funky little disco number that segued nicely into “ARCADES”. She wasn’t yet done with politics, and so WHEN “FERRETHEADS ATTACK” entered in just before “PANDEMICA,” which was obviously a “fuck around and find out” message complete with a ventilator. SIMAR did a great remix, and they finally just relented and found a home studio demo of STRING THEORY to include. She liked the idea of a duet, even if it had to remain a demo for then. 1973” was her stance on women’s right to choose, and “GHOSTBABY” was done up by Thief. “DANCING” followed, and flowed nicely into “PETRICHOR” as the title track. This one reflected the mood she was in at the time, as she loves the after effects of an autumnal rain. “DUCKS” was another studio ramble that made it onto a b side fit for this release and she hoped she did okay with her awesome piano bar version of “SATELLITE” to quiet things down.

Musically, EPisodes is lush, atmospheric, and unpredictable. Every sound feels alive — glitchy beats pulse like neurons, airy vocals float like vapor, and silence often says as much as melody. It’s an album that doesn’t tell stories —

Where EPisodes question reality, Petrichor embraces emotion. The title itself — the scent of rain after drought — perfectly captures the record’s essence: cleansing, renewing, and quietly powerful.

They began writing and recording around 2018, 2019, and she was getting into the Arcade foley genre, so one of the first tracks was something like “BLAMELESS (ARCADES)” as a result. It had been remixed, incorporating those arcade sounds she liked. “INSIDE” was nearly a spontaneous studio creation serving as an intro for what they had been sketching out. “MISS ME YET?” was actually an excerpt from a longer interview she had done previously, and “PAUSE, EFFECT” was another in-the-moment track that eventually turned into a drum and bass type affair. “SURVEILLANCE” was a track that they had demoed even before these sessions about “CCTV” and being spied upon. “FERRETHEAD” from this session was directly aimed at the “PDFelon”, but if you listen later on, his name is edited out. “THE DIRGE” was her solo version that had once been a duet with her label mates Wedlock’s lead singer-he actually stepped in to do vox at the last minute because it was always meant for another vocalist-her solo version was probably the next best thing at the time. “GHOST BABY” was one she was a little reticent about doing at first, but it was written obliquely, so end the end she didn’t mind. “Sexy pink, erotic blue…” “PHOSPHENES” came about because mid-session, they were trying to work out what the shapes and patterns were behind closed eyes…”ARCADES, “AEROPLANES” was about the “tour” ….before the Pandemic, and “VONDEL+TILT” was about the Netherlands, more specifically. “OUTSIDE” ended the sessions

Musically, this is Bryanna at her most fluid. Synth-pop textures remain, but there’s a warmer organic pulse beneath the electronics. The production breathes — raindrops of piano, gentle rhythms, and ambient washes that mirror emotional release. Petrichor is less about perfection and more about presence.

Musically, these demos are unpolished by design — glitchy, neon, and raw. But that’s their power. They reveal how Bryanna Rain builds her art: from spark to shimmer, from silence to symphony. It’s the sound of invention — imperfect, honest, and beautiful.

Across three discs, Bryanna Rain’s Box Set Vinyl Reissue plays like a diary written across galaxies — at once human and otherworldly. “Episodes” is the mind, processing chaos, “Petrichor” is the heart, finding peace, “The Arcade Demo Sessions” is the soul, rediscovering freedom. Together, they chronicle the evolution of an artist who refuses to stand still. Bryanna Rain doesn’t just make music — she builds worlds out of memory and melody, emotion and electricity.

This reissue is both a retrospective and a revelation. It reminds us that even in a digital age, art this personal — this alive — can still make us feel human. Bryanna not only proved her talent once in this collection of songs but in all three. I love a consistent queen, and I can’t wait to hear more of her music!

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