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Track Listings
| 1. Olio |
| 2. Heaven |
| 3. Open Up Your Heart |
| 4. I Need Your Love |
| 5. The Coming Of Spring |
| 6. House Of Jealous Lovers |
| 7. Echoes |
| 8. Killing |
| 9. Sister Saviour |
| 10. Love Is All |
| 11. Infatuation |
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
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Long-delayed major label debut from ultra-hip NY punk-funk band finally hits the shelves. Produced by in-demand crew DFA, the album mixes the raw, angular feel of post-punk bands like Gang Of Four with the sass of disco to make a hot, danceable sound, topped with the demented, barely in tune vocalsof Luke Jenner. Includes the singles 'Olio' and 'House Of Jealous Lovers'.
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