The Rapture ... the new album.

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I always wondered how much of Echoes was the Rapture and how much was the DFA. Now I know.

Take Me Out > Sister Saviour > Daft Punk is Playing at My House > Mr. Brightside > W.A.Y.U.H. > turd sandwich > The Bravery

― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:00 (twenty years ago)

i think it's excellent.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:01 (twenty years ago)

I always wondered how much of Echoes was the Rapture and how much was the DFA. Now I know.

OTM

― lf (lfam), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:02 (twenty years ago)

yeah...all those times I saw them play live during the year before Echoes came out, it was amazing to watch the DFA pull all their strings and play all the DATs from behind the stage.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:45 (twenty years ago)

wow, remember the rapture! good times...

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:50 (twenty years ago)

I think that the point of this tune, much like 'House Of Jealous Lovers', is to make people dance. It made me want to. Stop pontificating, people and get your arses on the floor.

Then again, I am a bit drunk.

― yer mam! (yer mam!), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:56 (twenty years ago)

Then again, I am a bit drunk.
you are my hero!

― yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:03 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, because not liking a Rapture song means I don't like dancing. How silly of me.

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:03 (twenty years ago)

One of the best shows I ever went to was a Rapture show at the old 2+4 club in Philly, which has since gotten a new name. Luke Jenner gave me flowers, I went up on stage for a bit, and I got to sing (terribly) the first couple bars of "House of Jealous Lovers." So, naturally, I bristle when people hate for no apparent reason.

However, WAYUH

― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:07 (twenty years ago)

what happened to rest of my post?

Er: WAYUH

― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:08 (twenty years ago)

forget this, bros

The Rapture (2003) > Outhud > The Rapture (2006)

― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:09 (twenty years ago)

Yes, silly you Cameron. To meet you halfway, I must concede that it's far from their best, but to start the backlash off one tune would be churlish. What's wrong with referencing Goodie Mob anyway? I interviewed The Rapture just before Echoes was released and they said that the next album was going to be heavily new jack swing influenced. Imagine my disappointment that it doesn't sound like Bell Biv Devoe!

To reiterate, I am quite drunk.

― yer mam! (yer mam!), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:12 (twenty years ago)

I'm not saying the whole album sucks. But I am saying this song sucks, and the lyrics are cheesy. As I said at the beginning, they have made some great pop songs. The Rapture do good things, so this was a disappointment.

No official backlash. Just think it's interesting to see how things develop as they leak, and obviously everyone wants to see what they sound like without DFA.

I don't expect cowbells, I don't expect a disco beat.

As long as the song is fun, that's great. It's just a bit too cheesy for me. I dunno. Maybe I'm a hater, but I just don't like this song. At all. :(

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:17 (twenty years ago)

Why is the singer not doing that cool screeching noise any more?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:19 (twenty years ago)

It's Matt Safer singing this, right? We'll agree to disagree, hey Cameron? Maybe I'm just too quick to jump to their defence, as they seem like a bit of an easy target these days. It feels like people are waiting for them to fall off without the DFA at the controls. I, for one, think that they've got the chops to do well with whoever mans the desk. By the way, am I alone in preferring the Steve Lilywhite version of 'Love Is All' to the DFA one?

― yer mam! (yer mam!), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:24 (twenty years ago)

the "exhortation to dance" meme is maybe a bit ironic on this song (lyric-wise), i can't really tell tho. could be a reference to pony?

― noizem duke (noize duke), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:39 (twenty years ago)

or perhaps exhortation via lamentation meme: "people don't dance no more just look in their drinks blah blah"

― noizem duke (noize duke), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:40 (twenty years ago)

haha, ili is singing the backup vocals on this. im kinda biased, but i really like this song.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 14 April 2006 23:03 (twenty years ago)

is she? rad!

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 14 April 2006 23:03 (twenty years ago)

Sounds like a retarded Radio 4 song.

Please move on-maybe they'll get played on VH1 or MTV with this shit.
It does it better towards the end though.

― ut R us, Friday, 14 April 2006 23:17 (twenty years ago)

they should've made a whole album like 'Infatuation'. jacking Talk Talk and Ennio Morricone is way less played out than sounding like a late 70s/early 80s New York dance/rock band (which they are themselves. except for the era, obv.)

― La Monte (La Monte), Friday, 14 April 2006 23:17 (twenty years ago)

listening to "WAYUH" now. boy they sure do love their cowbells!

it's good, but i can't see myself having a major revelation with it the way i did with "jealous lovers."

― buck pwens (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 15 April 2006 00:01 (twenty years ago)

wtf does WAYUH stand for

clap your hands say WAYUH

― buck pwens (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 15 April 2006 00:04 (twenty years ago)

i am not so into the first half of the song, but the second half is kinda cool and sounds a little bit like the nonsense in double dutch bus by frankie smith (you know, the part missy elliot sampled 'dizouble dizutch - wizzle mizzle kizzer... or whatever). i liked the rapture before the dfa period, i liked them during, and i imagine i'll probably continue to like them now. especially after that clip from the crash mansion video... i posted it before, but if anybody is interested in hearing my edit of that just drop me an email to this address.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Saturday, 15 April 2006 00:22 (twenty years ago)

Is it just me or is there a sample of "Dooms Night" by Azzido Da Bass buried in there?

― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Saturday, 15 April 2006 01:13 (twenty years ago)

this is fucking horrible

― rat, Saturday, 15 April 2006 03:33 (twenty years ago)

yep, you got it rat

― corey c (shock of daylight), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:05 (twenty years ago)

The Rapture career trajectory:
"Out of the Races..." - this band could go places. I love their guitar parts. superfantastic live show. The Rapture in 2001 was a force to be reckoned with.
"Jealous Lovers" - holy effing g-d. instead of telling me to shake x11, you just grabbed me by the neck and made me, and i can't stop!! forget 11, this one goes to 12.
"Echoes" - they actually live up to the hype over a whole album? that's totally insane.
"WAYUH" - whatever high school band is calling themselves "The Rapture" and releasing sub-Radio 4 tracks like this should be sued.

1000% OTM. maybe more.

― davelus (davelus), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:37 (twenty years ago)

:rolleyes:

― BeeOK (boo radley), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:39 (twenty years ago)

It's good! Sounds like it's unmastered though.

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Saturday, 15 April 2006 10:13 (twenty years ago)

boom boom boom, everybody say WAYUH....

"WAYUH!"

― Danny boy, Saturday, 15 April 2006 12:15 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was pretty good... can't wait to here more.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Saturday, 15 April 2006 15:14 (twenty years ago)

YOU GUYS SURE LOVE HYPERBOLE DON'T YOU.

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 15 April 2006 15:27 (twenty years ago)

YOU GUYS SURE LOVE HYPERBOLE DON'T YOU?

― lf (lfam), Saturday, 15 April 2006 16:15 (twenty years ago)

sounds like girls aloud actually

― don quixote, Saturday, 15 April 2006 19:38 (twenty years ago)

agh

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 15 April 2006 19:39 (twenty years ago)

and babes, that aint no bad thing.

― don quixote, Saturday, 15 April 2006 19:40 (twenty years ago)

Does WAYUH stand for something, and if so, what?

I like some things that Steve Lillywhite has done, a lot!

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:45 (twenty years ago)

I now think it sounds like that Tom Tom Club remix of Supergrass from a few years back.

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:54 (twenty years ago)

I tried to look up online what the letters stand for, but it did not work.

I found this site: http://www.subpop.com/scripts/main/bands_page.php?id=382 - it says that they make a "sonic deathfuck groove" and have a make-it-fucked-up philosophy". That sounds just terrible!

It also says they were inspired by the Byrds. I can't see that.

Anyway, I did not learn what the letters stood for. Perhaps nothing.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:11 (twenty years ago)

all I know is there's a keith jarrett record called wayuh or something similar

― simon 803 (simon 803), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:18 (twenty years ago)

scrap that. it's called fort yawuh.
dyslexic

― simon 803 (simon 803), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:20 (twenty years ago)

I made Luke a Gene Clark mix tape once, so maybe that's what they're referring to.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:21 (twenty years ago)

HI LET'S PASS FINAL JUDGEMENT ON A BAND FROM AN UNFINISHED LEAK

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:23 (twenty years ago)

that Sub Pop blurb is from their pre-DFA days, when they were more of a straight up rock band

I liked Out of the Races a lot, loved Echoes, but I gotta reluctantly agree that WAYUH sounds pretty bad. I dug some of the acid / Chicago sounding stuff on the Crash Mansion video though, so I still hold out hope ...

― Renard (Renard), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:25 (twenty years ago)

p'raps it's the band's prediction of fan reactions - "the new record is way....uh......"

or not. :)

― 6335, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:40 (twenty years ago)

And with which The Rapture opened their Essential Mix in 2003.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:33 (twenty years ago)

well that makes some sense then, i suppose.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

what is this Crash Mansion business you speak of

does it also exhibit a sonic deathfuck groove

― Roque Strew (RoqueStrew), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 23:07 (twenty years ago)

some streaming video thing that was on the web

they did a show in ny last year where they played a bunch of new stuff and it wound up in this sort of promo clip or something

I don't have the link anymore, sry

I'm sure someone else will step up

― Renard (Renard), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 00:49 (twenty years ago)

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Never mind. I just got the new Melvins album and it slaughtered everything I've heard in recent memory.

― Harpal (harpal), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 05:33 (nineteen years ago)

the serge santiago remix is bomb... i foind it here.

a dub version with less vocals would be great.

― grady (grady), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 06:18 (nineteen years ago)

found, no less.

― grady (grady), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 06:18 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

http://pitchfork.com/news/42799-listen-the-rapture-how-deep-is-your-love/

― mizzell, Friday, 10 June 2011 23:12 (fifteen years ago)

sounds dope

― The Reverend, Friday, 10 June 2011 23:31 (fifteen years ago)

two months pass...

http://vimeo.com/27878921

― Gukbe, Thursday, 18 August 2011 21:40 (fourteen years ago)

the synths on sail away are awesome. and the little in a silent way tribute at the end is cool too

― mizzell, Thursday, 18 August 2011 21:48 (fourteen years ago)

just a few tracks in, but this album is way, way better than i thought it would be.

― Clay, Saturday, 20 August 2011 04:49 (fourteen years ago)

this album is way, way better than i thought it would be.

^ this

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 20 August 2011 05:16 (fourteen years ago)

oh, this exists?

― my brother's a basedgod (The Reverend), Saturday, 20 August 2011 08:11 (fourteen years ago)

heard two songs off this & both were excellent

― J0rdan S., Saturday, 20 August 2011 08:23 (fourteen years ago)

The singing is rather awful on a couple of tracks.

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 August 2011 12:10 (fourteen years ago)

oh, so it's a Rapture album

― Rob Based and DJ EZ God (DJP), Saturday, 20 August 2011 14:50 (fourteen years ago)

I would never have guessed there might be awful singing on songs by the Rapture.

― my brother's a basedgod (The Reverend), Saturday, 20 August 2011 20:13 (fourteen years ago)

Well, I'd never singing on a Rapture record -- they thankfully shouted a lot.

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 August 2011 21:53 (fourteen years ago)

*never heard

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 August 2011 21:53 (fourteen years ago)

bring back the ratpure

― jed_, Saturday, 20 August 2011 21:58 (fourteen years ago)

Man, the Dusted review of this is quashing a lot of my excitement:

The rest of the album, however, is uniformly mediocre, except where it’s terrible.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 1 September 2011 13:31 (fourteen years ago)

This is dull, too much songwriting, not enough groove.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 1 September 2011 13:35 (fourteen years ago)

man, the chorus on "how deep is your love" just makes me think of sisqo

― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2011 14:58 (fourteen years ago)

The second side is terrific, especially "How Deep is Your Love" (not a Bee Gees cover), but the first half drags.

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 September 2011 15:00 (fourteen years ago)

"how deep is your love" is great even if its a weak attempt to re-capture "echoes" era agngsty anthems

i've had "sail away" on loop all day. its such an incredible opener that it took two or three listens before i realized i didn't much care for the 3 or 4 songs that followed it.

"it takes time to be a man" is a nice closer, too.

otherwise i'm not crazy into it, but i can keep the whole album on without skipping any tracks. def my most listened to album in the last two weeks, regardless.

―  (gr8080), Friday, 9 September 2011 09:20 (fourteen years ago)

jed_ otm

― spitting, shirtless man in lawyer's wig (haitch), Friday, 9 September 2011 14:32 (fourteen years ago)

playing this, on "Never Die Again"

wtf happened to the singing

I LIKED the yelpy tremulous Robert Smith-esque wailing, what is this smoothed out boring midrange shit

like, this isn't BAD, but it also isn't what I want from The Rapture

― Tal Berkowitz - Vaccine advocate (DJP), Friday, 9 September 2011 14:36 (fourteen years ago)

this album is so much damn fun; I liked the Holy Ghost album a bunch but this is basically a fifty-times-better version of that.

― punk rock hyrax (jamescobo), Friday, 9 September 2011 17:31 (fourteen years ago)

I LIKED the yelpy tremulous Robert Smith-esque wailing, what is this smoothed out boring midrange shit

agreed. the new style singing works great on How Deep Is Your Love but over the course of the album I'm not feeling it.

weak attempt to re-capture "echoes" era agngsty anthems

this song doesn't really sound like anything off Echoes to me but it's def. the best track on here

― dmr, Friday, 9 September 2011 17:41 (fourteen years ago)

The singing is rather awful on a couple of tracks.

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, August 20, 2011

― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 September 2011 17:42 (fourteen years ago)

ive never thought to myself before this record "hey that guy from the Rapture sure does a good job of singing"

―  (gr8080), Friday, 9 September 2011 18:47 (fourteen years ago)

This is mostly p boring, but "Never Die Again" and the single are jams.

― skrillex pretend (The Reverend), Saturday, 17 September 2011 22:33 (fourteen years ago)

Last song is p good too.

― skrillex pretend (The Reverend), Saturday, 17 September 2011 22:38 (fourteen years ago)

seven months pass...

Listening to this album again, and looking over the lyrics... it's about him finding Jesus, right?

― Popture, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:51 (fourteen years ago)

Yes

― mizzell, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 23:21 (fourteen years ago)

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