Album · Rainer Maria
Catastrophe Keeps Us Together by Rainer Maria
Catastrophe Keeps Us Together is an album by Rainer Maria, released in 2006. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 2 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Life of Leisure”, on 1 list with a best position of #72.
Catastrophe Keeps Us Together was Rainer Maria's fifth studio album, released in 2006 as the follow-up to Long Knives Drawn, and in hindsight the title reads like a dare. The band had started out in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1995, later settling in Brooklyn, and had spent a decade wearing the emo tag with more grace than most. Here they lean into indie rock with some bite, guitars tangling and a rhythm section that pushes rather than plods.
They took it across the US that April and May and played Denver Fest II in September. Two months after that, they called it quits, pointing to musical and personal reasons alike. "Life of Leisure" gave the countdowns a taste of the record. It wasn't the last word, though: the band reunited in 2014.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Catastrophe Keeps Us Together on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Life of Leisure | 1 | #72 | – | 2006 | |
| 2 | Catastrophe | 1 | #884 | – | 2025 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.