The title track for Delain's most recent album sets the tone for the rest of April Rain.
"April Rain" isn't as gothic as the tracks of Delain's first album, Lucidity—probably in part because Delain started as a music project not a band—but there's still a gothic feel to the music. It's comparable to Nightwish's "Amaranth" (from their Dark Passion Play album).
Delain's singer Charlotte Wessels has a pretty voice that fits the pop-ish music. Her accent gets a bit distracting, though. Fortune is pronounced "for-chune" and then rhymes with the rest of the line: "smiles on you". That line gets repeated twice in every round of the chorus. The song would be a lot more enjoyable without that slaughtered word. It distracts me every time.
Despite the gothic influences, the song's actually encouraging. Even when life's hard, even when all your plans end up "scatterbrained" and "hurricane"s, life is what you make of it. If you watch, you can make things better—but if you don't watch out for when "fortune smiles on you", you'll just "dig that hole deeper" and sink further into despair.
The music video illustrates this with a cloaked woman fighting her way across a rainy bridge before it collapses, to be pulled to safety by the singer, Charlotte Wessels. The cloaked woman then removes her hood to reveal that she herself is also Charlotte.
Overall, fans of pop-ish metal music should enjoy this, and it has a good message.
Lyrics: 4/5
Music: 4/5
Vocal(s): 4/5
Overall: 8/10
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