The Rapture - Echoes - Vinyl LP
Olio
Heaven
Open Up Your Heart
I Need Your Love
The Coming Of Spring
House Of Jealous Lovers
Echoes
Killing
Sister Saviour
Love Is All
Infatuation
Brand new stock - Media: Mint: Sleeve: Mint
“The revelation that you didn’t need formal trainingto start a band in 1977 and the realization that youdon’t need to be Merce Cunningham to dance areone 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-eyedkick in the teeth, a band at the peak of their powersand 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 whatremains clear is that this album, made by a SanDiego punk band who had moved to New York viaSeattle, and produced by the DFA in their ownstudio, where time and gear and ideas both goodand bad were aplenty, maintains an energy andsearch for catharsis that could bulldoze even themost uptight.
For whatever reason, it’s remained out of print onvinyl since its initial run. (Don’t worry, though, therewere a lot of CDR promos lying around.)
And now, with minimal pageantry, it’s back. Recutby Bob Weston, loud and clear.