Woah, who saw this anniversary coming? The Rapture's Echoes wrote the book on early 2000s dance-punk, with mammoth tunes like House Of Jealous Lovers, I Need Your Love, and Sister Saviour getting skinny jeans moving en masse on the dancefloor. Produced by the DFA's James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem) and Tim Goldsworthy (UNKLE), the album was labelled the year's best by Pitchfork, and is finally back in print after way too damn long. - Flying Out
“The revelation that you didn’t need formal training to start a band in 1977 and the realization that you don’t need to be Merce Cunningham to dance are one 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-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.
Tracklist
2 Heaven
3 Open Up Your Heart
4 I Need Your Love
5 The Coming of Spring
6 House of Jealous Lovers
7 Echoes
8 Killing
9 Sister Savior
10 Love Is All
11 Infatuation
Please note that Echoes (Reissue) (Vinyl LP) is currently not in store but is an imported title from an overseas supplier.
Most of the time it takes around 2-3 weeks for the item to arrive here and be sent out but it can take longer if there are any delays.