The Rapture
Echoes LP vinyl

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.

NEW / Released in 2003 / Reissue 2023

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 Savior

B5 Love Is All

B6 Infatuation