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Echoes [CD]

The Rapture | Format: Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (8 Sep 2003)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • Label: DFA Records/Vertigo
  • ASIN: B0000C83MI
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,837 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Olio 5:20£0.69
Listen  2. Heaven 3:47£0.59
Listen  3. Open Up Your Heart 5:22£0.69
Listen  4. I Need Your Love 4:39£0.69
Listen  5. The Coming Of Spring 2:42£0.59
Listen  6. House Of Jealous Lovers 5:04£0.69
Listen  7. Echoes 3:06£0.89
Listen  8. Killing 3:37£0.69
Listen  9. Sister Saviour 3:46£0.69
Listen10. Love Is All 4:15£0.69
Listen11. Infatuation 5:01£0.69

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Prior to Echoes, all that most music fans really knew about the Rapture was that they were a band adored by music snobs and the fashion set, and it was pretty much impossible to find records by them that didn't sound like they'd been recorded in a biscuit-tin. But silence, doubters: with Echoes, these tousle-haired Brooklynites have made one of the defining records of 2003. Drawing on everything from British post-punk, early Chicago house and the shrill post-grunge sound of the mid-1990s Seattle underground, Echoes can loosely be divided into three parts: the scalpel-sharp guitar work-outs ("Heaven", "Echoes"), the booty-shaking, room-quaking dancefloor fillers ("House of Jealous Lovers", "Sister Saviour") and the bare, "Perfect Day"-style torch-songs ("Open Up Your Heart", "Love Is All"). Mind you, that's not to say Echoes lacks moments of individual majesty, as the frazzled tears-on-the-dancefloor acid shimmer of "Olio" proudly attests.

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

BBC Review

The Rapture are a New York indie rock band, sometimes referred to as The Disco Strokes. This is their first album, produced by the hip studio duo DFA. An early single from the album, the shouty "House of Jealous Lovers", has become a dance floor classic. Hopes run high in the land of the cool.

In the spirit of the age this album mines the early 80s; though not the electro pop of that decade like Fischerspooner et al. (So last year!) No, the Rapture reference the austere sounds of British punk-funk.

If you're over 35 you might remember, The Gang of Four, PiL, ACR. Protest music of the Thatcher era, music which made you wear a beret and live in a squat and think about taking up Kung Fu. Add to this the fact that singer Luck Jenner sounds like Robert Smith of the Cure and you have...an exercise in nostalgia?

No, that's not fair. It's more than that. There's nothing lazy about this album, they've worked hard in the heat and sweat of the Big Apple - producing something which is quite special.

The most immediate pleasure comes from the more housey tracks. "Jealous Lovers" still makes me want to jump about and kiss someone I shouldn't and "I Want Your Love" is as groovesome a tune as you'll hear all year.

You suspect these two tracks are where the DFA really take control, nostalgic for a time when Blondie went to rap clubs and Talking Heads were hipper than hip. The band's tastes come to the fore on the rest of the album.

And it's on the more introspective tracks that Jenner's voice sounds most at home, especially "Love Is All" and "Open Up Your Heart." He claims to be a big Barry White fan, and in a weird way his plaintive wailing offers up a skinny boy version of the great mans rumblings.

It would be easy to go on playing spot the influence - the title track is just soooo PiL, but somehow that would miss the point. The lyrics are sometimes rubbish, and the shrill yelp can be overdone; but overall I can't help but be charmed. Go on, let yourself like them. It'd be churlish not to. --Matt Harvey

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
believe the hype 17 Sep 2003
Format:Audio CD
Having followed this band since their first, 4-track-recorded album "Mirror", I have to say I've thoroughly enjoyed their slow and steady evolution and rise through the underground. While their live shows have always been fantastic, their small amount of recorded output (one full length, one EP, and a handful of singles) up until now has only hinted at the breadth, variety, and brilliance of their music. "echoes" is the masterpiece they've had in them all along. Yeah, they're hyped, yeah, they're courted by the press and the fashion mags and whatnot, but these guys are no trendy neophytes. They pretty much started the disco-punk trend anyway, and while their sound owes a lot to the past, (whose doesn't?) they, along with the DFA, have fashioned a slick but stripped-down sound that sounds both utterly current and instantly classic. They aren't afraid to try new things and venture into new territory, and to test the limits of their audience. (chicago house for the indie crowd?) oh, yeah, and they're actually good songwriters! a truly great album by a truly great band.
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the rapture echoes 24 Jan 2011
Format:Audio CD
arrived quickly in perfect condition

bought it on the back of hearing "Echoes" as theme for the brilliant "Misfits"

love dance and punk music - this album combines both & all for just a few quid!

buy it now, you won't be disappointed!!
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
What really marks "Echoes" out from the all of the other new bands on the scene is the diversity it demonstrates. Although, I still think "Out of the races and onto the tracks" is their best song (found on previous mini album and also on Rough Trade's Post Punk compilation, also excellent!) and a fantastic upbeat punk/dance crossover. Imagine elements of the Cure, Joy Division and the Happy Mondays filtered through New York and your not far away. It is essential that you see them live as they are one of the best acts to see in the flesh. I've already seen them 3 times this year and would go again tomorrow. If you genuinely like good music that's a little different from latest batch of copycat bands you'll find a space for this in your collection.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
rapturous!
on first listen i thought oh no a sub-quality cure soundalike a la block party ('praps a bit harsh on both?). Read more
Published 2 months ago by gregory.cov
Down with it.
Man, I havent had this much fun since moby, this is really funky, and disco pop, its absolutely genius and crazy, the cowbell in House Of Jealous Lovers, man, good times, not an... Read more
Published on 12 Jun 2004 by "gregorthedrummer"
Open up you heart
I went to see The Rapture in Leeds and have to say they are undoubtedlythe best live band ever, everyone in the crowd was converted! Read more
Published on 28 April 2004
therapture finally hit the big time
Ooops! Another genre of music has been created.
You've got to check this album out, it has some brilliant tracks on it, it has a dance-rock feel to it, espeically on tracks... Read more
Published on 3 Feb 2004 by Mr. D. J. Humphrey
Lots of energy...
At last a band to fill the shoes of the likes of "Suicide" and "The Cure" with the same kinda of energy and strange take of their subject matter with lyrics that are both thought... Read more
Published on 26 Jan 2004 by Milt Ingarfield
ECHOES
All I can say is, buy this album. If your looking for a band that's so different from the current guitar,indierock bands on the scene, The Rapture is the one. Read more
Published on 12 Jan 2004 by Gertie
Fresh, new, Brilliant
A superb fresh new album. Sounds a bit like The Cure meets, meets Siouxsie & the Banshees, meets Chemical Brothers, meets; no wrong, they meet no one, they sound Fresh, different... Read more
Published on 17 Dec 2003 by Nigel Nicholls
Believe the hype!
I feel sorry for the reviewer who can't appreciate this CD. It is a fabulously fresh, original sound--the best of punk (its emotional edge and rawness)combined with the best of... Read more
Published on 9 Nov 2003 by Black Griffin
phantasmagoria
You can't go wrong with The Rapture. Of the disco-punk movement, they and Radio 4 are at the top of the heap.
This has been a highly anticipated album. Read more
Published on 23 Oct 2003 by M. Fantino
It's like Bez, only not rubbish
"The Disco Strokes". What, I ask you, were we meant to make of that? It's the same old story: perfectly decent band pushes all the right fashion buttons, gets wildly... Read more
Published on 15 Sep 2003 by "davectheman"
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