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The Rapture

Echoes

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Song	Lyrics	Save	Buy
PLAY QUEUE 1 Olio		save
PLAY QUEUE 2 Heaven		save
PLAY QUEUE 3 Open Up Your Heart		save
PLAY QUEUE 4 I Need Your Love		save
PLAY QUEUE 5 The Coming Of Spring		save
PLAY QUEUE 6 House Of Jealous Lovers		save
PLAY QUEUE 7 Echoes		save
PLAY QUEUE 8 Killing		save
PLAY QUEUE 9 Sister Saviour		save
PLAY QUEUE 10 Love Is All		save
PLAY QUEUE 11 Infatuation		save

MOG Editorial Review

The first highly danceable full-length from Brooklyn act The Rapture was handled by the production team of DFA (James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy), and the results made them the crowning kings of the resurgence of post-punk in the early aughts. Frontman Luke Jenner’s wailing vocals surge against a house beat on “I Need Your Love,” and “Echoes” builds to a glorious mess that perfectly distills their dance-punk aesthetic. While there’s a moment of calm on the piano-led “Open Up Your Heart,” which brings out the fragility in Jenner’s voice, they’re best when they’re going full force and delivering unstoppable songs like “Sister Saviour.” Yet “House of Jealous Lovers” is the obvious anthem, as soon as the cowbell anxiously makes itself known, while Jenner shrieks over sharp guitar riffs in the vein of the Gang of Four that dominated New York's dancefloors at the start of the millennium, and we have Echoes to thank for indie kids continuing to boogie today.
AMG Review of Echoes

Andy Kellman
All Music Guide

One 12", produced and released by the DFA, transformed the Rapture from a benign indie band into hot hot sh*t. Once "House of Jealous Lovers" -- a horrifically mangled jolt with a viscous rhythmic vroom as dynamite as anything from the late-'70s U.K. post-punk bands -- took hold in the underground, anticipation for this album built, built, and kept on building. Has the wait paid off? Yes and no. It has, in a sense, because that single seemed like a case of capturing lightning in a bottle -- a one-off that would define an otherwise extremely average band -- and Echoes ably proves that it was no fluke. The wait hasn't paid off, in a sense, because hype turned Echoes into a monolithic event when, in truth, it turns out that only half of it proves "House of Jealous Lovers" to be no fluke. The lesser half nearly chokes the album, as it casts the Rapture as the same rickety band that it was before the rebirth. "Open Up Your Heart," daringly placed as the third track, is a hollow, momentum-killing piano ballad; on "Love Is All," multiple Southern boogie elements prove to be a mismatch; "Infatuation" closes the album with a murmur. Another detracting feature is the overuse of Luke Jenner's Robert Smith, which is oftentimes more glaring than Paul Banks' Ian Curtis and Jack White's Robert Plant put together. However, when the band is on, it is on. Nearly toppling their previous best, "I Need Your Love" is propelled by a relentlessly thumping backbeat, an unshakable keyboard vamp, and gurgling keyboards -- it's the band's second stroke of indie-dance genius. "The Coming of Spring" is another frantic neo-post-punk slasher, with wonderfully needling guitars cleaved by a Nuggets-worthy breakdown. Lastly, opener "Olio" will be pure heaven for those who secretly wished that Chicago house legend Larry Heard would one day swap out Robert Owens in favor of Robert Smith. These flashes of greatness don't quite add up to what could have been, but the album as a whole is still quite exceptional.