Album: Echoes by The Rapture (2003)
Genre: Post-Punk | Style: Rock/Pop
Format: Album

Description: Echoes is the debut full-length album by dance-punk band The Rapture, released in 2003. The album garnered much critical praise from Pitchfork Media, who hailed the album as the best of 2003. They also honored the songs "I Need Your Love" at #323 and "House of Jealous Lovers" at #16 on their best songs of the 2000s countdown. Resident Advisor ranked the album 35th best of the decade. The song "House of Jealous Lovers" was also ranked sixth on NME's "100 Tracks Of The Decade".

Artist Background: The Rapture is an indie rock band based in New York City. The band mixes influences from many genres including post-punk, acid house, disco, electronica and rock, pioneering the post-punk revival genre. They were forerunners of the post-punk revival of the early 2000s, as they mixed their early post-punk sound with electronic and dance elements. Part of the New York, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Post-Punk movement. Known for Rock/Pop style.

Music Scene: Part of the New York, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Post-Punk movement. Known for Rock/Pop style.

Tags: Post-Punk, Rock/Pop, 2000s, Album

Additional Context: Rating score: 8. Based on 2 votes. Available on Discogs marketplace


Echoes is the debut full-length album by dance-punk band The Rapture, released in 2003. The album garnered much critical praise from Pitchfork Media, who hailed the album as the best of 2003. They also honored the songs "I Need Your Love" at #323 and "House of Jealous Lovers" at #16 on their best songs of the 2000s countdown. Resident Advisor ranked the album 35th best of the decade. The song "House of Jealous Lovers" was also ranked sixth on NME's "100 Tracks Of The Decade".

Album: 2003-10-02: Black Session #198: Paris, France by The Rapture (2003)
Genre: Post-Punk
Format: Live

Artist Background: The Rapture is an indie rock band based in New York City. The band mixes influences from many genres including post-punk, acid house, disco, electronica and rock, pioneering the post-punk revival genre. They were forerunners of the post-punk revival of the early 2000s, as they mixed their early post-punk sound with electronic and dance elements. Part of the New York, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Post-Punk movement. Known for Rock/Pop style.

Music Scene: Part of the New York, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Post-Punk movement. Known for Rock/Pop style.

Tags: Post-Punk, 2000s, Live


Album: !K7 Tapes by The Rapture (2008)
Format: Album

Artist Background: The Rapture is an indie rock band based in New York City. The band mixes influences from many genres including post-punk, acid house, disco, electronica and rock, pioneering the post-punk revival genre. They were forerunners of the post-punk revival of the early 2000s, as they mixed their early post-punk sound with electronic and dance elements. Part of the New York, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Post-Punk movement. Known for Rock/Pop style.

Music Scene: Part of the New York, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Post-Punk movement. Known for Rock/Pop style.

Tags: 2000s, Album

Additional Context: Available on Discogs marketplace


Album: Mirror by The Rapture (1999)
Genre: Post-Punk | Style: Rock/Pop
Format: Album

Artist Background: The Rapture is an indie rock band based in New York City. The band mixes influences from many genres including post-punk, acid house, disco, electronica and rock, pioneering the post-punk revival genre. They were forerunners of the post-punk revival of the early 2000s, as they mixed their early post-punk sound with electronic and dance elements. Part of the New York, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Post-Punk movement. Known for Rock/Pop style.

Music Scene: Part of the New York, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Post-Punk movement. Known for Rock/Pop style.

Tags: Post-Punk, Rock/Pop, 1990s, Album

Additional Context: Available on Discogs marketplace


Album: In the Grace of Your Love by The Rapture (2011)
Genre: Post-Punk | Style: Rock/Pop
Format: Album

Description: 

Things have not gone well for The Rapture since their Next Big Thing moment a decade ago. The New York-based then-quartet were the first band on the block to blend late-70s/early-80s post-punk with late-80s dance, providing the missing link between the hipster synth revival of the short-lived electroclash sub-genre and the more accessible pleasures of nu-rave. They made one classic, game-changing single in House of Jealous Lovers, an album, 2003’s Echoes, which almost lived up to it, and then… the inevitable. A third album, 2006’s Pieces of the People We Love, which threw too many hip producers (including Danger Mouse and Paul Epworth) at too few memorable songs. Cue five years of missing in action, the usual label chaos, and a lost key member in bassist/vocalist Matty Safer.

They return as a trio comprising Luke Jenner, Vito Roccoforte and Gabriel Andruzzi on the DFA label run by the producers, James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy, who were vital collaborators in their early years; and as a distant memory for an indie scene that has spent 10 years taking all their best ideas and running with them. It’s unlikely that the average Killers fan has any clue who they are.

Sadly, one suspects that In the Grace of Your Love is unlikely to make things better. Overseen by Phoenix producer Philippe Zdar, it comprises 11 tracks that sound like intros in search of songs. It is bland of lyric and tinny of sound. The rhythms plod alarmingly. It feels like the work of surprisingly limited musicians who are still rooted in an obsession with sounding like old records they enjoy, which was exciting years ago when you thought no one else was listening to PiL or The Cure or Marshall Jefferson, but now that you know that everyone is, you figure that a group that has been together for 13 years should perhaps find their own sound. It attempts to find an ‘uplifting’ mood, part rave, part festival sing-along, but feels desperate and undeveloped, as if someone had compiled a series of short happy-clappy indie-rock hooks designed for use on mobile phone ads and the final valedictory scenes in teen soaps. The title-track copies Hot Chip both blatantly and badly, and some of the hands-in-the-air sentiments have a slightly creepy Christian rock feel.

Good points? Luke Jenner’s needy yelp is still instantly recognizable and hard to dislike. There’s a neat, out-of-place accordion loop in the first half of Come Back to Me. But that’s about it – and as someone who loved this band, it’s no pleasure revealing its numerous negatives. "I’ll see you on the other side," Jenner howls on Blue Bird, a failed attempt to mix Mott the Hoople and shoegaze droning. Not if I see you first.


Artist Background: The Rapture is an indie rock band based in New York City. The band mixes influences from many genres including post-punk, acid house, disco, electronica and rock, pioneering the post-punk revival genre. They were forerunners of the post-punk revival of the early 2000s, as they mixed their early post-punk sound with electronic and dance elements. Part of the New York, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Post-Punk movement. Known for Rock/Pop style.

Music Scene: Part of the New York, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Post-Punk movement. Known for Rock/Pop style.

Tags: Post-Punk, Rock/Pop, 2010s, Album

Additional Context: Based on 2 votes. Available on Discogs marketplace




Things have not gone well for The Rapture since their Next Big Thing moment a decade ago. The New York-based then-quartet were the first band on the block to blend late-70s/early-80s post-punk with late-80s dance, providing the missing link between the hipster synth revival of the short-lived electroclash sub-genre and the more accessible pleasures of nu-rave. They made one classic, game-changing single in House of Jealous Lovers, an album, 2003’s Echoes, which almost lived up to it, and then… the inevitable. A third album, 2006’s Pieces of the People We Love, which threw too many hip producers (including Danger Mouse and Paul Epworth) at too few memorable songs. Cue five years of missing in action, the usual label chaos, and a lost key member in bassist/vocalist Matty Safer.

They return as a trio comprising Luke Jenner, Vito Roccoforte and Gabriel Andruzzi on the DFA label run by the producers, James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy, who were vital collaborators in their early years; and as a distant memory for an indie scene that has spent 10 years taking all their best ideas and running with them. It’s unlikely that the average Killers fan has any clue who they are.

Sadly, one suspects that In the Grace of Your Love is unlikely to make things better. Overseen by Phoenix producer Philippe Zdar, it comprises 11 tracks that sound like intros in search of songs. It is bland of lyric and tinny of sound. The rhythms plod alarmingly. It feels like the work of surprisingly limited musicians who are still rooted in an obsession with sounding like old records they enjoy, which was exciting years ago when you thought no one else was listening to PiL or The Cure or Marshall Jefferson, but now that you know that everyone is, you figure that a group that has been together for 13 years should perhaps find their own sound. It attempts to find an ‘uplifting’ mood, part rave, part festival sing-along, but feels desperate and undeveloped, as if someone had compiled a series of short happy-clappy indie-rock hooks designed for use on mobile phone ads and the final valedictory scenes in teen soaps. The title-track copies Hot Chip both blatantly and badly, and some of the hands-in-the-air sentiments have a slightly creepy Christian rock feel.

Good points? Luke Jenner’s needy yelp is still instantly recognizable and hard to dislike. There’s a neat, out-of-place accordion loop in the first half of Come Back to Me. But that’s about it – and as someone who loved this band, it’s no pleasure revealing its numerous negatives. "I’ll see you on the other side," Jenner howls on Blue Bird, a failed attempt to mix Mott the Hoople and shoegaze droning. Not if I see you first.


Album: Pieces of the People We Love by The Rapture (2006)
Genre: Post-Punk | Style: Rock/Pop
Format: Album

Artist Background: The Rapture is an indie rock band based in New York City. The band mixes influences from many genres including post-punk, acid house, disco, electronica and rock, pioneering the post-punk revival genre. They were forerunners of the post-punk revival of the early 2000s, as they mixed their early post-punk sound with electronic and dance elements. Part of the New York, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Post-Punk movement. Known for Rock/Pop style.

Music Scene: Part of the New York, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Post-Punk movement. Known for Rock/Pop style.

Tags: Post-Punk, Rock/Pop, 2000s, Album

Additional Context: Based on 2 votes. Available on Discogs marketplace


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