Rapture (The) - Echoes

The Rapture - Echoes

Tracklist
A1 Olio
A2 Heaven
A3 Open Up Your Heart
A4 I Need Your Love
A5 The Coming Of Spring
B1 House Of Jealous Lovers
B2 Echoes
B3 Killing
B4 Sister Saviour
B5 Love Is All
B6 Infatuation

“The revelation that you didn’t need formal
training to start a band in 1977 and the realization
that you don’t need to be Merce Cunningham to
dance are one and the same.” - Ryan Schreiber,
Pitchfork, 2003
47 minutes. Two sides. A single spine jacket.
Confident and deliberate. Lightning in a bottle.
The Rapture’s Echoes was and is a clear-eyed
kick in the teeth, a band at the peak of their
powers and producers with an ambitious vision
making. a. point.
The whole “indie crowd finally learns to dance”
narrative is overwrought and irrelevant in 2023
- perhaps context is no longer king - but what
remains clear is that this album, made by a San
Diego punk band who had moved to New York
via Seattle, and produced by the DFA in their own
studio, where time and gear and ideas both good
and bad were aplenty, maintains an energy and
search for catharsis that could bulldoze even the
most uptight.
For whatever reason, it’s remained out of print
on vinyl since its initial run. (Don’t worry, though,
there were a lot of CDR promos lying around.)
And now, with minimal pageantry, it’s back. Recut
by Bob Weston, loud and clear.

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