Artist:Rainer Maria
Song:Artificial Light
Album:A Better Version of Me
Rainer Maria was an indie band that had modest success with a small but rabid fanbase in the early 00s. Their music is a cross between emo and slowcore. Rainer Maria is from Madison, WI. Guitarist Kaia Fischer and drummer William Kuehn were in a band named after poet Ezra Pound. After that band split up, they formed a new band with bassist and lead singer Caithlin De Marrais and named it Rainer Maria after German poet Rainer Maria Riike. They started playing gigs and sent out a demo which got them a record deal with the indie label Polyvinyl. They released their debut album Past Worn Searching in 1997. At some point the band moved to Brooklyn, NY probably so they could perform at a wider variety of venues. They usually returned to Madison to record with recording engineer and studio owner Mark Haines. Artificial Light is from the 2001 album A Better Version of Me. This is available as a digital download. After releasing the 2006 album Catastrophe Keeps Us Together, Rainer Maria announced that they were splitting up at the end of the year. Caithlin released two solo albums. They played a reunion show in 2014. They played more shows and released a 2017 album. I think they split up again. They last posted on Facebook in 2018. And Caithlin released a solo album in 2021. Here's Rainer Maria performing Artificial Light at Seattle radio station KEXP Oct. 5, 2017.
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