Lots of thoughts on that Summer Song post. Including one prescient pick for the band behind Pitchfork’s favorite album of 2003.
Bassist Matt Safer promises the Rapture’s new single will “make the perfect opener to your soundtrack for the summer.” Dig that horny chorus, but for better or worse it doesn’t sound like our dance-punk heroes have stretched much from Echoes. It’s certainly hotter than “W.A.Y.U.H.,” but that was only a demo.
You’ve had almost a week with “Get Myself Into It” at MySpace. Impressed? Or was their sound overrated to begin with?
DJ Lohan likes it.
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very mediocre.
i agree…but they’ve never really been that good. at least this time around the singer’s voice doesn’t make me want to kill myself (just sort of punch myself a bit….which is better)
ugh. the rapture always always ALWAYS sucked.
build em up and chop em down. gotta love the indie mafia.
This band is still boring the daylights out of me.
seeyouinteaparty: but yeah, i listened to the rapture for the same reason i listened to a few screamo albums
LoveOrganDonor: you were confused about your sexuality?
seeyouinteaparty: to know what’s going on in music.
LoveOrganDonor: oh
seeyouinteaparty: i hate screamo.
seeyouinteaparty: and i hate you.
“Echoes” is a great album, but I think it’s impossible to follow up because their sound is so constricting musically. Much like the Strokes’ situation. The music is great, but people complain that they’re not “evolving” or “improving” their sound at all. Next thing you know, they take it too far and you get “First Impressions of Earth.” Similarly, I’m both dreading and drooling over the Arcade Fire follow up. How do you top “Funeral?”
brendawg,
i hope the arcade fire take a good long time coming up with their followup. they’re worth keeping around, unlike the others you mentioned.
Having heard cuts off the new album beyond this one, I can assure you the Rapture album will be anything but boring.
FUCKING AWESOME
I complete agree with most of the above. From day one I didn’t understand what all the freggin’ hype was about. And then I heard the Pitchfork push and understood.
They have got to know someone in the band …
This album is going to be tight as hell.
“i hope the arcade fire take a good long time coming up with their followup. they’re worth keeping around, unlike the others you mentioned.”
I feel the same way. A lot of people like to use the Arcade Fire as the “OMGBUZZBANDWTF,” and say that they’ll never be heard from again, but honestly out of all the bands to capture some amount of buzz the last couple years… If I had to pick one to go on and become something really special… If anyone can do it, I think it’ll be them.
As to how you top “Funeral”, I have no idea. I suspect the answer is that, well, you don’t. If you try, you run the risk of just imitating it. Instead, grow… sideways (cf: OK “Computer” –> “Kid A”, for the most drastic example EVAR. Or “Moon And Antarctica” –> “Good News…”). Or maybe it turns out ‘Funeral’ was just a warm up to something _even better_ in the same vein. Which is kind of a scary thought.
Win recently updated his part of the Arcade Fire website saying they’ve got about 15-18 tracks mostly completed. I would be surprised if they didn’t cut that down to 10-12 for an album (and use the rest as b-sides). So we’re probably still at least a couple months from an album release (I would guess late this year at the earliest, but who knows. We can be sure Merge won’t want to wait too long after it’s done).
If I recall, their last show was late November ’05 (getting on a year ago), and other band members have been off doing other things (Final Fantasy, Bell Orcestrea). Even guessing that Win, et al., took a few months off after those last dates opening for U2, it doesn’t seem like they’ve rushed the writing/recording of the followup. Of course, I think at this point it’s safe to say they’re not pulling a radiohead-style 2 or 3 year studio marathon.
Time will tell, of course… But I’m hopeful. Honestly, as much as I’m looking forward to a new album, I’m actually more excited by the idea of more tour dates, because, uh, god damn if those guys don’t put on one of the best shows ever.
Back on topic: I liked Echoes, but didn’t think it was OMGAWESOMEWTF. I like the new track. I think it stands up to the best of the songs on the first album. I’m not sure it’s fair to say the whole album won’t be an evolution of their sound (the first single from the second Franz album didn’t sound like the band had grown at all, but the album showed a decent amount of growth). Jenner seems to have improved as a singer (still wails, which is fine. No longer wails somewhat tunelessly, at least not in this song).
People who do not think that “The House of Jealous Lovers” is one of the best songs of the decade should be euthanized.
i threw all their downloaded music i had of theirs out of my window into the dumpster last summer. crap pissed me off.
Alex: For the record, Echoes was not their first album. That title belongs to the excellent (yet primitive) Mirror.
I love it. I’m actually surprised to see so many that don’t share my opinion.
lindsay lohan is a dj now. great. has she been? what’s up with that? grrrrrrrrr
This is definitely a grower, seeings how Echoes was one of my favorites of that year, too.
“Alex: For the record, Echoes was not their first album. That title belongs to the excellent (yet primitive) Mirror.”
I know this, and yet I frequently forget that fact. Shame on me. I had a downloaded copy of it somewhere or other. I either deleted it, or lost it in a hard drive crash about a year ago.
I don’t miss it. My dim memory suggests that I wasn’t particularly impressed by it.
I had a friend once say that he’d rather beat off with a barbed wire mitten than listen to the Rapture. I, however, love them.
I loved Echoes and like the new song. WAYUH was kind of meh. I can see how Echoes would be polarizing though…and would agree it will be hard for them to top it because their sound is a difficult one to evolve from.
It’s a lot easier to love them when you’ve seen them live. One of the best shows out there.
what’s up with the dudes behind Lohan…
aoki ha. Can’t wait to hear what the album will sound like after seeing them play at crash. I’m glad their back again, even if it’s dfa-less. I think they can hold their own weight.
W.A.Y.U.H was mediocre? Stereogum’s lost it.
haha a picture that includes bai ling, steve aoki AND lohan? im suprised the universe didn’t collapse in on itself because of the concentrated douchebaggery.
as for the song – i could see myself liking it in a dance situation.. but if i was at like.. a bbq, it would bug the fuck out of me.
The first ten seconds of “Get Myself Into It” is good, and then the voice begins.
http://www.musictimes.com.au
Their old stuff was punk rock; now they’re becoming pop rock. They still make NYC kids jump though – saw it happen a few weeks ago.
All you naysayers should get out of your rooms more, and learn to dance.
And then you can give an unbiased judgement of whether you like the Rapture or not.
Taylor speaketh the truth.
And Steve Perry probably doesn’t even know that Tetsuya Fukagawa of the Screamo band Envy did vocals on Mogwai’s latest album. Yeah, Screamo sucks so badly that well-respected Indie bands are using Screamo vocalists for their music!
I dare anyone to listen to the latest Envy or I Would Set Myself On Fire For You albums and then tell me that Screamo sucks.
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Those two guys are Jeremy Scott and Steve Aoki, okay? And what are they doing?
There about to make out. Got a problem?
I did not mistake my “they’re”s. That was a typo. I’m not an idiot. Swear it.
steve aioki is a pimp and the rapture are the closest thing to a vintage rough trade band today.
this new song seems to be a good mix of their older stuff and cleaned up dfa. i like it. too long though.
find me a a better example and i’ll delitfully place 5 pink ones in my mouth.
THE NEW STEREO MCS.
Pearson + Epworth = Auditory Magic.
CYHSY wins the prize for most overly loved band
I still don’t understand what’s so special about the Rapture, and this doesn’t convince me of their alleged grandiosity any more than that horrible “House of Jealous Lovers”. Blaaaaaaaaah.
You need to credit photos before you decide to steal them and post them to your site.