The Rapture - Pieces Of The People We Love (Best Buy Bonus Track)
ARTIST.....: The Rapture
TITLE......: Pieces Of The People We Love (Best Buy Bonus Track)
LABEL......: Universal / Mercury
URL........: www.therapturemusic.com
RIP DATE...: Sep-12-2006
STORE DATE.: Sep-12-2006
GENRE......: Retro
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 4,1 MB
Track Listing:
01 - Shooting Star 03:36
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03:36 min
Release Notes:
www.myspace.com/therapture
Three years after the release of their much-lauded debut, Echoes,
New York four-piece The Rapture return with a new long-player,
Pieces of the People We Love.
Pieces of the People We Love was written over the course of 12
months after the band had finished touring their debut. Knuckling
down to writing duties upon their return to New York, the group
emerged in a confident stride with 30 songs in their pocket and an
itch to get into the studio. They road-tested some of their new
tunes in a series of low-key live shows up and down the east and
west coasts. The results were suitably exciting (the NYC show was
voted Gig of the Year by New York Magazine), so in Spring 2006
they took these songs into the studio with Paul Epworth (Bloc
Party, Futureheads) and Ewan Pearson (mixer for Chemical Brothers,
Depeche Mode and Gwen Stefani, on production duties for the first
time) in Manhattan, and then with Danger Mouse (you may have heard
of him recently through his Gnarls Barkley project) in L.A.
Whats come out of these sessions is an album that winds a course
from pop-funk smash (the call-and-response refrains of Whoo!
Alright-Yeah...Uh Huh are a grin-so-hard-it-hurts delight) to
psychedelic (Live In Sunshine); The Rapture show their softer side
on tunes like Calling Me, then resolutely wipe the slate clean
with the blast of energy that is "The Sound." All in all, this
record is the sound of a band more focused, having too much fun
and without a thought to any hipster pre-conceptions that might be
held of them. It's the sound of a party to which everyone is
invited.
Props on the vinyl but cd quality > vinyl quality.