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Artist
Brenda Weiler
12+ albums
acousticMinnesotafemale vocalistsnorth dakota connections
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Four years after her last studio release, Brenda Weiler returns with End The Rain (Speaker Phone Records), her bravest and most personal album to date. End The Rain was born of the overwhelming mix of feelings Weiler experienced after losing her older sister to suicide in late 2005. Having been raised in a large musical family, it made sense that Brenda would explore the range of emotions she was feeling through song, as evidenced in lyrics from the title track, “I'm not going to say what can be sung.” The result is a powerful collection of songs that beautifully articulates a personal journey through loss. The songs on End The Rain are arranged in the order they were written, allowing the listener to follow Weiler through her experience and grief. The album opener, “Not Forgiven” was the first song Weiler wrote after her sister's death, coming quickly after a long period of silence. In it she sings of the guilt a survivor feels, the size of her burden evident in the catch in her voice as she pleads, 'God, let this pass through me.' “Noise and Sound,” an upbeat mantra for change, expresses the desire to feel normal again, while “Those Neighbor Kids” touches on the insufficiency of language to express sympathy and our discomfort with true expressions of grief. End The Rain closes with the title track and the haunting words, 'Can I say goodbye when I'm not done with you?', Weiler originally envisioned the album ending with a song expressing the peace she found at the end of th
