Rainer Maria

Rainer Maria made thought feel physical. The band's songs are melodic and propulsive, but they are also full of argument, revision, and emotional counterpoint. Voices meet, separate, and return with a different angle on the same question.

Their Madison origin places them squarely inside the upper-Midwest geography that gave this archive its name. The music, though, reaches outward: sharp enough for a small room, open enough to carry far beyond it.

Start here for a version of the genre where the writing and the pulse refuse to be separated.