Ah, the live album. Rainer Maria was always a great live band: Kyle Fischer’s boundless energy lit up the venue, Will Kuehn’s drumming held everything together, and Caithlin DeMarrais’s vocals were a degree or two more delicate and revelatory than on record (see “Rise”). That said, the live record Anyone in Love with You (Already Knows) (Polyvinyl, 2004) isn’t a live show: the tracks (representing all four previous albums they had released by this time) are culled from six different shows over three years, and it just feels weird to longtime fans. The production is consistent across the album, so there are no auditory cues that this is a compilation, but the pacing is all off, “Tinfoil” starts the set (as it starts 1997’s Past Worn Searching) instead of the encore, and plenty of live mainstays are simply missing. On the plus side, it’s great to hear a more mature band reading songs from their back catalog, such as “The Reason the Night is Long,” “Rise” (both on 1999’s Look Now Look Again), and “Soul Singer” (the single non-album track here, on the Atlantic EP, 1999). The live mixing reveals new elements at times: although not as tight as on record, Rainer Maria’s performances always had some musical surprises; and we can even hear Fischer’s vocal choruses, as on “Mystery and Misery.”