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Frontman Luke Jenner's cut-glass caterwaul--pitched somewhere maddeningly between the Cure's Robert Smith and Nirvana's Kurt Cobain--is on the perpetual drift between sadness, anger and euphoria. Yet the whole of Echoes flows like a dream, segueing from track to track like the best mix-tape you never owned. Believe it: not only have the Rapture rehabilitated the humble cowbell, they've crafted one of the most inventive and successful dance-rock crossovers since Primal Scream's Screamadelica. --Louis Pattison
Is it any real coincidence that both Blondie and Siouxsie had songs called (The) Rapture? You can hear elements of both that New York disco that Blondie was doing and that spaced out goth that Siouxsie was sculpting back in the day. But, if you can stomach a few more references, what really stands out to me with this album in particular and their two earlier ones is the following scenario: What if Robert Smith stepped up and volunteered his vocals to Joy Division after Ian Curtis ceased to be? Imagine that cusp, where New Order split off and continued with the anxiety Joy Division had but cloaked in a soothing atmosphear of early electronica. I know it's a lot to consider, but I can hear all of that and Robert Smith circa Faith or Pornography.
All that said, it is unfair for me, just a fan, to heap all of this mystique onto a band like The Rapture. If nothing else, Echoes proves that this band is responsible for it's own dynamics.
Now onto the tracks (or, a few of the ones I like best):
Olio has grown tremendously since The Rapture's first album. Listen to both and after a while you will gravitate to this one.
The Coming Of Spring has the familiar "get yourself together" that they used on Out Of The Races And Onto The Tracks. The rest of the song is completely different though.
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