Rainer Maria - S/T
Polyvinyl, 2017
Engineer
“There aren’t many groups that have repackaged themselves so successfully this late in the game, and fewer still with a reunion album that stacks up this well against their most cherished work.”
- Pitchfork (7.6 review)
“Amazingly, S/T (short for self-titled, but not actually eponymous) functions as a natural extension of Rainer Maria's discography, while staying true to its members' accumulated wisdom and insight.”
- NPR Music
“…all of it sounds fresh and urgent and new, like the work of a band that’s finding itself in entirely new ways after all that time apart. It’s a big, sleek, forceful rock album from a group who never really made big, sleek forceful music before. I loved the raw prettiness and the tiny personal apocalypses of Rainer Maria’s old records, but I’m so happy to see that they’ve let those go, that they’ve moved onto something else. S/T represents a total reinvention, and a completely successful one. Rainer Maria are, once again, one of the best bands in the world.”
- Stereogum