Edie Yvonne reinvents "No Rain" with ethereal grace

Having bestowed our earholes with nonstop surprises for an entire year, Edie Yvonne closes out 2023 not with a bang, but a pretty whisper. Her cover of "No Rain," the cult favorite by Blind Melon, isn't just a wink back to yesteryear but a sweet wrangling toward intimacy that feels both wistful and new mine-of-the-moment. There's something cinematic about it, and you can practically see a desolate bedroom, the rain tapping outside the window, the burden of adolescent dreams and growing pains heavy in the air. Edie nails that one with uncanny clarity, and you momentarily forget the extent of her youth. 

Slowed down and stripped of its sunny bounce, Edie's steely iteration allows the song to respire anew. Under executive producer Douglas Boehm's lead, the arrangement tiptoes toward a haunting, fragile cloud of sparsely played instruments, leaving Edie's vocals front and center. And what vocals they are; Soft, aching, and incredibly present, she doesn't attempt to mimic the original; instead, she lets the lyrics flow through her, in her voice, to elicit a gentle kind of hope that sounds more akin to a diary entry than a performance.

"No Rain" feels like a fitting exhale to cap off her creative sprint. If this cover is her way of waving goodbye to the year, it's also a signpost pointing forward: Edie can not only make music, but she can make it mean. On "No Rain," Edie Yvonne demonstrates that she's not a regurgitator of the classics. Still, she's a gentle, careful shape-crafter, her voice a clear echo of an artist who's only beginning to show what she's capable of.