This album is positively monumental. At one moment you are in a punk-rock house party in Brooklyn and then you are transported to a Berlin nightclub at 3am and then you wake up with a hangover on a Sunday morning as sunlight hits your face. The DFA-supplied beats are perfect, the tinny Gang-of-Rapture guitar is artful, and the basslines are incessant. But what really makes this album important, and more than just a Williamsburg art-rock document, are the slower tracks. There's a lovely power-pop song that ...   [ read more ]

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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 Sp...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. This catchy song by punk-rock disco group the Rapture is given a deep percussive treatment from Morgan Geist. With a great live drum sound, pulsing bass, and even a trumpet solo! On the record: A1. House of Jealous Lovers (Original) A2. House of Jealous Lovers (Morgan Geist REMIX) B1. Silent Morning

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