Wanda has a face like thunder: I dare you to mess with her.
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All four players showed their evident disgust, Stenson backed away from his putt while Rose walked towards the crowd with a face like thunder.
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"Face Like Thunder" is a single by English indie pop act The Japanese House (Amber Bain) from her third EP Swim Against the Tide. "Face Like Thunder" was released on 26 September 2016.
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"Face Like Thunder" was premiered on Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1 show on 26 September 2016 and was released the same day. Bain released a music video for "Face Like Thunder" directed by Gareth Philips on 17 October 2016.
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DIY gave the EP a positive review, awarding it 5 out of 5 stars, and stating that the lead single "Face Like Thunder" was "Amber [Bain]’s most chart-ready pop hook to date". Atwood Magazine noted that it was lighter and more upbeat than her previous releases but "just as introspective and raw as her previous two EPs". "Face Like Thunder", the EP's lead single, was the most commercially successful track from the EP and had steady airplay on BBC Radio 1.
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Swim Against the Tide is the third extended play by the English indie pop act The Japanese House, released on 11 November 2016 through Dirty Hit. The EP's first two songs — "Swim Against the Tide" and "Face Like Thunder" — were released as singles before the EP's release. The EP peaked at number 12 on Billboard's Heatseekers album.
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Bain originally wrote "Face Like Thunder" years in advance of its release, before she released her debut EP Pools to Bathe In in 2015. It was later included as the first single from Swim Against the Tide, Bain's third EP. In an interview with Atwood Magazine, Bain stated that the song was "vaguely I guess, about a couple, maybe breaking up or maybe coming to the end of the relationship – maybe it’s a couple or maybe it’s two parts of the same person". The desert imagery of the song's music video was inspired by the song's themes of loneliness and endings. When planning the music video for "Face Like Thunder", Bain, who is a lesbian, decided to cast a male as her romantic interest to avoid accusations that she was "[jumping] on the lesbian bandwagon".
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The EP's lead single "Face Like Thunder" was written before the release of The Japanese House's debut album Pools to Bathe In, and was adapted for inclusion in Swim Against the Tide. Bain has stated that the inspiration for EP's final track, titled "Leon", came from the 1994 French film Léon: The Professional, and is based on the perspective of Matilda, a character from the film, after she had grown up.
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The EP's first single, "Face Like Thunder", was released the day after its premiere on Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1 show as the EP's lead single. "Swim Against the Tide", the EP's title track, was released as a single on 24 October 2016. "Good Side In", the final single from Swim Against the Tide was released on 31 October 2016 and premiered on Zane Lowe's "World Record" on Beats 1. The full EP was released on 11 November 2016.
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"Face Like Thunder" was well received by critics, with several making comparisons between Bain's vocals and those of Imogen Heap. Consequence of Sound praised the song's use of cheerful pop sounds to mask emotionally heavy lyrics, and made positive comparisons to Future and Of Montreal. In its review of the Swim Against the Tide EP, Read Dork called the single "arguably the perfect soundtrack to any late-summer drive, with the sort of hook that would bring Smash Hits back to life in a heartbeat".
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