The Ratpure

cool

i really hope the timing of that press release was intentional

I'm sure it was!

they looked at google over the weekend and were like "hey, we're trending!"

Is it just me or is the chorus to "How Deep Is Your Love?" v.close to Sisqo's "Thong Song"?

ETC OTM

it's kind of hilarious

song is also the shit tho

if you're gonna bite a hook you could do A LOT worse than the "thong song"

Oh, totally - it's a great hook, and lends itself to anguish/ecstasy. V.Sisqo year with this + platinum blonde guy from Game of Thrones' "wake the dragon" mantra scannning as "I know you don't really wanna / Unleash the dragon" w/my friends, heh.

wow yeah, that is.....not a coincidence.

i can't tell whats going on in this rapture song on laptop speakers

it is surprisingly great tho...real male diva vibes from luke

they looked at google over the weekend and were like "hey, we're trending!"

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Does anybody remember when ILX used to notify you if a thread got posted to?

Maybe theirs still works!

It really *does* sound like The Thong Song!

http://www.pedestrian.tv/music/news/the-rapture-in-the-grace-of-your-love-track-by-tra/51915.htm

thx for the link

I like "How Deep Is Your Love" but not really feeling most of the rest of this. dude's new singing style is taking some getting used to, when I heard the single I thought it was a totally different person.

"It Takes Time To Be a Man" went right by me when I listened to this before but it's kinda great?

yeah that song is amazing

someone put it on a mix and I was like this is good, who is this, some neo-soul white guy? Mayer Hawthorne? oh shit it's the Rapture

i only have 4 songs off the new album (sail away, title track, how deep, it takes time) but they are all excellent.

they were good live when i saw them a month ago too

I will never not be laughing @ "The Ratpure"

I made sure to find this thread specifically to bump

RIP bros, good times.

did see them back in December at the Bowery and really enjoyed the show. Of course they followed the completely obnoxious LCD Soundsystem

ha i was a gd idiot 10 years ago. that was a good show but LCD is way better than these dudes

also maybe my first ilx post. wtf am i doing w/ my life

http://www.self-titledmag.com/2018/10/03/luke-jenner-interview-the-rapture-meditation-tunnel/

^^^really good read imho

Isolating highly pure rat spermatogonial stem cells in culture.
Hamra FK1, Chapman KM, Wu Z, Garbers DL.
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Abstract
Methods are detailed for isolating highly pure populations of spermatogonial stem cells from primary cultures of testis cells prepared from 22- to 24-day-old rats. The procedure is based on the principle that testicular somatic cells bind tightly to plastic and collagen matrices when cultured in serum-containing medium, whereas spermatogonia and spermatocytes do not bind to plastic or collagen when cultured in serum-containing medium. The collagen-non-binding testis cells obtained using these procedures are thus approx. 97% pure spermatogenic cells. Stem spermatogonia are then easily isolated from the purified spermatogenic population during a short incubation step in culture on laminin matrix. The spermatogenic cells that bind to laminin are more than 90% undifferentiated, type A spermatogonia and are greatly enriched in genetically modifiable stem cells that can develop into functional spermatozoa. This method does not require flow cytometry and can also be applied to obtain enriched cultures of mouse spermatogonial stem cells. The isolated spermatogonia provide a highly potent and effective source of stem cells that have been used to initiate in vitro and in vivo culture studies on spermatogenesis.

http://www.self-titledmag.com/2018/10/03/luke-jenner-interview-the-rapture-meditation-tunnel🕸/

Brilliant read, thx. Never cared that much about Rapture but the codependency childhood story really resonates. Glad to see he made it to the other side

yeah same. loved some of their singles but not really a fan of the albums. that was an awesome interview though. cool to see a musician so into being a Dad. also the stuff re: James Murphy matches up with what I've heard about him.

That's a pretty amazing interview.

Cool to hear that these guys have reunited since that interview. Pretty much with frogbs that their best moments are excellent, even if the albums are patchy

saw them last night. still one of the best live bands I've ever seen. Like most bands, they should never play a space larger than where I saw them last night. They were amazing, the crowd lost their shit, the various phases/sounds they've played with blended great, and even stuff that I like the least on the albums sounded totally killer live and loud. Amazing energy, great show.

can't believe I haven't posted on this thread before?

I WAS THERE!

21 years ago at the SFSU Caesar Chavez Student Center next to the dorms, opening with this GO4 cover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf8trAog_5Q

might be one of their first shows after the Gravity single?

the Ratpure at Caesar Chavez Student Center -- or the Rapture at Cesar Chavez Student Center?

I was in grad school there at the time, did not see this.

Do not fret, there were not many people there, perhaps one other ilx0r besides myself.

8/4/99 The Dialectic, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Subtonix, The Rapture

lol some of my friends were in Subtonix (didn't know them at the time tho)

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