The Rapture

The Rapture Plan iPad-Beating Comeback

The Rapture burst into public consciousness in 2003 with a song that single-handedly prompted a dance-punk revival; “House of Jealous Lovers” was a club hit, acclaimed across the nascent blogosphere, and even reached No.3 on the UK singles chart. Breakthrough album Echoes was also widely praised, but follow-up Pieces Of The People We Love was met with a muted response and the band faded from view. Now the New York group have traveled to Paris to record their comeback LP. "So much of these last 10-15 years in music sounds so completely perfect, so 'inside the computer,'" producer Philippe Zdar told Pitchfork. "When I heard The Rapture's demos, I suggested we avoid that. We agreed to do it like a jazz album: put everyone in the same room and work for a good live feeling.” "We're cruising through the process-- if everything goes well we'd love to have this album out by June or July," multi-instrumentalist Gabe Andruzzi added. "Our new album's gonna be 100 times better than the iPad! With this record you're going to be interfacing with your soul in ways that have never happened before."