Product Description

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'.

Track Listing

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21232 in Music
• Released on: 2003-09-08
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 47 minutes

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

Customer Reviews

Hits the spot
I bought this album on the strength of "House of Jealous Lovers" and I think that it's great. I'm not a huge fan of the slower tracks ("Open Up Your Heart" is trite, both lyrically and musically) but the rest of it is marvellous.

Here are some things I hear in this album: Blondie, Talking Heads, Soft Cell, Steve Strange, The Passions, Adam and the Ants (honestly!)...I am a child of the 80s. And what about those vocals? Delightfully shambolic.

Thank you, The Rapture, for allowing me to escape to my childhood once more, when music really was at its peak.

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 album youll forget for a while since itll be occupying your stereo for quite some time, it will grip you, believe me.

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!
They'rebeautiful and their music is an experience in itself, makes me wanna takeof my clothes and dance in the rain....
....just buy this album.