My Raining Stars is the creature of French musician and songwriter Thierry Haliniak. In the early 90s, Thierry was in a band called Nothing To Be Done that performed with artists such as The Boo Radleys, Adorable, and Moose. Being raised by much of the music of those times, especially influenced by the legendary C86 era and bands from Creation Records and Sarah Records, Thierry has a knack of writing classic pop songs. In 2008, these songs would become My Raining Stars debut album From St Saviour To Quickwell. Twelve years later, in November 2020, the project re-emerged with a digital EP, Obvious Reasons, with featured song lyrics by his friend Gilles Ramey and, just after the EP release, Thierry formed a new side-project called Meyverlin with Gilles and Philippe Lavergne (ex-Freluquets). In October 2021, they released their debut album, Daily Events, with a ‘classic guitar indiepop sound‘, on the French indie label Too Good To Be True, then a second one in June 2023, Therefore, more 80s/90s electropop oriented, again on Too Good To Be True.
Back to My Raining Stars project, Thierry recorded, with the help, on drums and bass, of the talented danish multi-instrumentalist Casper Iskov, his second My Raining Stars album, 89 Memories, which was released in 2022 via Shelflife (US) and Disco De Kirlian (Spain), soon followed by an EP, The Life We Planned. Still assisted by Casper Iskov on production, recording and mixing, he re-recorded, between October 2023 and April 2024, 10 popsongs, some old, some new, for this new album entitled Momentum, which will be released jointly on Shelflife (USA) and Too Good To Be True on April 11th, 2025. The Cost Within is the third single from the new album.

What Thierry Says: “The Cost Within is a tribute song to my father who died too soon and, musically, it’s my pure indiepop side”

After For Good and Stop the Time, here is the third track taken from the forthcoming album by My Raining Stars. Musically, The Cost Within is undoubtedly more pop and upbeat than the two previous singles, but the lyrics remain in line with the tone of the album, with Thierry Haliniak addressing deeply personal subjects, such as the untimely death of his father in this song. Once again, the video was directed by Maud Anyways, using self-shot footage of Thierry playing the guitar (with his low angle shot’s signature style).

The Album:

Tracklist:

1. For Good
2. Better Life
3. Special Place
4. Stop The Time
5. Lost In The Wild
6. The Cost Within
7. Lovers
8. Void
9. Disappeared
10. Manhattan

Momentum will be out on March 21, via Shelflife Records (US) and Too Good To Be True (FR). Look Here for more information on My Raining Stars.