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 pie...   [ read more ]

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In 2001, Rainer Maria released their third album and played almost 200 shows. Yet, somehow Kyle Fischer (guitar, vocals) and Caithlin De Marrais (vocals, bass) managed to travel from New York back to Madison, Wisconsin a few times over the course of six months and make ?Open Ground?--an album of material mostly written by Kyle outside of sessions with Rainer Maria. Although the project uses the moniker of ?Kyle Fischer?, Kyle enlisted the help of Caithlin as well as Mike Kinsella (Owen, American Football, ...   [ 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 eviscerated -- listen to "He...   [ read more ]

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