After postponing this record for three months to continue revision, Rainer Maria emerge clutching the masterwork of the postpunk literati: "A Better Version of Me." Singer Caithlin De Marrais sounds positively remade. Viscerally affecting, but not eviscerated -- listen to "Hell and High Water." Check the high notes on "Thought I Was." Her bass playing is adroit and smooth, and on tracks like "Atropine," triplets well up from the bottom octave. Guitarist Kyle Fischer has torn apart and tweaked out every piec   [ read more ]

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After postponing this record for three months to continue revision, Rainer Maria emerge clutching the masterwork of the postpunk literati: "A Better Version of Me." Singer Caithlin De Marrais sounds positively remade. Viscerally affecting, but not eviscerated -- listen to "Hell and High Water." Check the high notes on "Thought I Was." Her bass playing is adroit and smooth, and on tracks like "Atropine," triplets well up from the bottom octave. Guitarist Kyle Fischer has torn apart and tweaked out every piec   [ read more ]

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After touring in support of their 2003 release, Long Knives Drawn, and wowing audiences with joint dates with Mates of State, Owen, and Saturday Looks Good to Me, Rainer Maria issued their first-ever live collection. Entitled Anyone in Love With You (Already Knows), the set culls the most representative live tracks since Rainer Maria's 1995 inception. Anyone in Love With You (Already Knows) couldn't have come at a better time, either. With more than 110,000 records sold and 1,000-plus s   [ read more ]

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This double CD/DVD set includes live, digitally remastered audio tracks collected over the past four years, as well as footage from their March 2003 show in Chapel Hill, NC (a concert which was part of the landmark Polyvinyl 2003 Winter Tour that saw Rainer Maria co-headlining with Mates Of State, Owen, and Saturday Looks Good To Me). With over two-and-a-half hours of material, this release is sure to delight old and new fans alike.

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The EP was recorded at Pachyderm Studio with producer Mark Haines just a few days before the band's move to New York. The three songs showcase Rainer Maria at their most intimate, opening with grinding, angular guitar and Pachyderm's patented open drum sound. The music slams into soft focus on "Atlantic" and makes as if to recede, then blooms in a bittersweet ending. Wipe the slate clean; clear the tabula rasa. Listen to it three times and it could be an album. For a minute, anything seems possible. Reco   [ read more ]

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The EP was recorded at Pachyderm Studio with producer Mark Haines just a few days before the band's move to New York. The three songs showcase Rainer Maria at their most intimate, opening with grinding, angular guitar and Pachyderm's patented open drum sound. The music slams into soft focus on "Atlantic" and makes as if to recede, then blooms in a bittersweet ending. Wipe the slate clean; clear the tabula rasa. Listen to it three times and it could be an album. For a minute, anything seems possible. Reco   [ read more ]

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Insound LP+MP3! Purchase the vinyl format of Better Version of Me and you'll receive a link to download the MP3s for free immediately after check-out! VINYL FORMAT. After postponing the record for three months to continue revisions, and then burning through nearly a month of 18-hour days in the studio, Rainer Maria emerge clutching a masterwork of the postpunk literati: "A Better Version of Me." Singer Caithlin De Marrais sounds positively remade. Viscerally affecting, but not eviscer   [ read more ]

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Rainer Maria's Ears Ring is a three-song EP, recorded in the same sessions as their upcoming fourth album. You'd imagine a voice this big couldn't fit inside a person or on a record. You'd think drumming this combustible would be illegal to ship across state lines. You'd assume guitar playing this elastic would snap, and the loose end of it might put your eye out. This is rock music at its most dangerous at a time when it could once again be effective. Simply put, a burst of glory and fury like findi   [ read more ]

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Rainer Maria's Ears Ring is a three-song EP, recorded in the same sessions as their upcoming fourth album. You'd imagine a voice this big couldn't fit inside a person or on a record. You'd think drumming this combustible would be illegal to ship across state lines. You'd assume guitar playing this elastic would snap, and the loose end of it might put your eye out. This is rock music at its most dangerous at a time when it could once again be effective. Simply put, a burst of glory and fury like findi   [ read more ]

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This volume encompasses an excerpt of Rainer Maria's forthcoming, full length. Meticulously edited by Mark Haines and Elliott Dicks at Smart Studios and published through Polyvinyl Press, Hell and High Water offers an enticing -- if painfully brief -- glimpse into what may be the 'meisterwerk' of the postpunk literati.

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Insound LP+MP3! Purchase the vinyl format of Hell and High Water and you'll receive a link to download the MP3s for free immediately after check-out! This slender volume encompasses an excerpt of Rainer Maria's forthcoming, full length. Meticulously edited by Mark Haines and Elliott Dicks at Smart Studios and published through Polyvinyl Press, "Hell and High Water" offers an enticing -- if painfully brief -- glimpse into what may be the "meisterwerk" of the postpunk literati.

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