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So, I think the Rapture have made some really good pop songs, and I really like some of their older material ... but this is about the future! haha.

Paul Epworth, Ewan Pearson, and Dangermouse are producing.

Hmm.

WAYUH is ... awful. The lyrics are really terrible, and they even go so far as to reference Goodie Mob. Plus, you'd think a pop band would have at least one hook. Not the case ...

I'm bummed out.

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:35 (twenty years ago)

Is it really that bad? You can't get a download of wayuh anywhere right now. Would you be willing to e-mail it? Surprised there are no hooks.

― Bobert Renaldo, Friday, 14 April 2006 19:45 (twenty years ago)

http://s51.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3HY3TE6AVBQJ3371CWBY3T98RH

― van igloo (van smack), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:46 (twenty years ago)

wtf does WAYUH stand for

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Thanks van igloo!

― Bobert Renaldo, Friday, 14 April 2006 19:50 (twenty years ago)

please don't kill the thread with YSI posts!

i don't want to be deleted.

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:53 (twenty years ago)

Oh man, sorry about that.

― van igloo (van smack), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:55 (twenty years ago)

okay, so there is a hook ... but it's play off of an old Goodie Mob single. kinda ... i don't know ... cheesy?

van igloo ... it's all good. :)

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:56 (twenty years ago)

i like how the fork compared this to remain in light era talking heads when it really sounds like a washed up liquid liquid. okay, so the vocals in the last third bear some resemblance to the talking heads.

yeah, that was awful.

― lf (lfam), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:58 (twenty years ago)

glad it's not just me.

and yeah ... Talking Heads? maybe Moving Units ...

that review was just shameless. i mean really ... and that snide comment about a paradigm shift from 1979 to 1980. bad, bad, bad.

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:09 (twenty years ago)

WAYUH is a lot of things but it's certainly not "awful." I'd say it's their best song after "I Need Your Love" and "House of Jealous Lovers."

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:11 (twenty years ago)

The lyrics are really terrible

It ends with the line "I used to think life's a bitter pill, but it's a grand old time." That's a fucking fantastic lyric, especially at the end of a song like that.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:13 (twenty years ago)

I just disagree. The lyrics are the part I like least, and the music is very run of the mill Rapture. That's just my opinion, but I'm sticking to it. :)

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:14 (twenty years ago)

OOOOOH you did a ysi

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:18 (twenty years ago)

this just sounds like they're having a good time. none of the whole "we're using COWBELLS, do you SEE?" a lot more relaxed and fun.

― lemin (lemin), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:35 (twenty years ago)

This is excellent. How is it like "washed up Liquid Liquid?" (Based on my memory of the Liquid Liquid comp that I sold back to the store, this sounds like it would have been one of their better songs - has more personality, no?)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:46 (twenty years ago)

OMG. I plead the 5th.

Liquid Liquid has less personality than the Rapture? Wow. No comment.

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:53 (twenty years ago)

I HAVE INSULTED "DEMIGODS" YET AGAIN.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:57 (twenty years ago)

I always wondered how much of Echoes was the Rapture and how much was the DFA. Now I know.

Take Me Out > Sister Saviour > Daft Punk is Playing at My House > Mr. Brightside > W.A.Y.U.H. > turd sandwich > The Bravery

― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:00 (twenty years ago)

i think it's excellent.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:01 (twenty years ago)

I always wondered how much of Echoes was the Rapture and how much was the DFA. Now I know.

OTM

― lf (lfam), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:02 (twenty years ago)

yeah...all those times I saw them play live during the year before Echoes came out, it was amazing to watch the DFA pull all their strings and play all the DATs from behind the stage.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:45 (twenty years ago)

wow, remember the rapture! good times...

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:50 (twenty years ago)

I think that the point of this tune, much like 'House Of Jealous Lovers', is to make people dance. It made me want to. Stop pontificating, people and get your arses on the floor.

Then again, I am a bit drunk.

― yer mam! (yer mam!), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:56 (twenty years ago)

Then again, I am a bit drunk.
you are my hero!

― yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:03 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, because not liking a Rapture song means I don't like dancing. How silly of me.

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:03 (twenty years ago)

One of the best shows I ever went to was a Rapture show at the old 2+4 club in Philly, which has since gotten a new name. Luke Jenner gave me flowers, I went up on stage for a bit, and I got to sing (terribly) the first couple bars of "House of Jealous Lovers." So, naturally, I bristle when people hate for no apparent reason.

However, WAYUH

― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:07 (twenty years ago)

what happened to rest of my post?

Er: WAYUH

― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:08 (twenty years ago)

forget this, bros

The Rapture (2003) > Outhud > The Rapture (2006)

― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:09 (twenty years ago)

Yes, silly you Cameron. To meet you halfway, I must concede that it's far from their best, but to start the backlash off one tune would be churlish. What's wrong with referencing Goodie Mob anyway? I interviewed The Rapture just before Echoes was released and they said that the next album was going to be heavily new jack swing influenced. Imagine my disappointment that it doesn't sound like Bell Biv Devoe!

To reiterate, I am quite drunk.

― yer mam! (yer mam!), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:12 (twenty years ago)

I'm not saying the whole album sucks. But I am saying this song sucks, and the lyrics are cheesy. As I said at the beginning, they have made some great pop songs. The Rapture do good things, so this was a disappointment.

No official backlash. Just think it's interesting to see how things develop as they leak, and obviously everyone wants to see what they sound like without DFA.

I don't expect cowbells, I don't expect a disco beat.

As long as the song is fun, that's great. It's just a bit too cheesy for me. I dunno. Maybe I'm a hater, but I just don't like this song. At all. :(

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:17 (twenty years ago)

Why is the singer not doing that cool screeching noise any more?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:19 (twenty years ago)

It's Matt Safer singing this, right? We'll agree to disagree, hey Cameron? Maybe I'm just too quick to jump to their defence, as they seem like a bit of an easy target these days. It feels like people are waiting for them to fall off without the DFA at the controls. I, for one, think that they've got the chops to do well with whoever mans the desk. By the way, am I alone in preferring the Steve Lilywhite version of 'Love Is All' to the DFA one?

― yer mam! (yer mam!), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:24 (twenty years ago)

the "exhortation to dance" meme is maybe a bit ironic on this song (lyric-wise), i can't really tell tho. could be a reference to pony?

― noizem duke (noize duke), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:39 (twenty years ago)

or perhaps exhortation via lamentation meme: "people don't dance no more just look in their drinks blah blah"

― noizem duke (noize duke), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:40 (twenty years ago)

haha, ili is singing the backup vocals on this. im kinda biased, but i really like this song.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 14 April 2006 23:03 (twenty years ago)

is she? rad!

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 14 April 2006 23:03 (twenty years ago)

Sounds like a retarded Radio 4 song.

Please move on-maybe they'll get played on VH1 or MTV with this shit.
It does it better towards the end though.

― ut R us, Friday, 14 April 2006 23:17 (twenty years ago)

they should've made a whole album like 'Infatuation'. jacking Talk Talk and Ennio Morricone is way less played out than sounding like a late 70s/early 80s New York dance/rock band (which they are themselves. except for the era, obv.)

― La Monte (La Monte), Friday, 14 April 2006 23:17 (twenty years ago)

listening to "WAYUH" now. boy they sure do love their cowbells!

it's good, but i can't see myself having a major revelation with it the way i did with "jealous lovers."

― buck pwens (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 15 April 2006 00:01 (twenty years ago)

wtf does WAYUH stand for

clap your hands say WAYUH

― buck pwens (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 15 April 2006 00:04 (twenty years ago)

i am not so into the first half of the song, but the second half is kinda cool and sounds a little bit like the nonsense in double dutch bus by frankie smith (you know, the part missy elliot sampled 'dizouble dizutch - wizzle mizzle kizzer... or whatever). i liked the rapture before the dfa period, i liked them during, and i imagine i'll probably continue to like them now. especially after that clip from the crash mansion video... i posted it before, but if anybody is interested in hearing my edit of that just drop me an email to this address.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Saturday, 15 April 2006 00:22 (twenty years ago)

Is it just me or is there a sample of "Dooms Night" by Azzido Da Bass buried in there?

― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Saturday, 15 April 2006 01:13 (twenty years ago)

this is fucking horrible

― rat, Saturday, 15 April 2006 03:33 (twenty years ago)

yep, you got it rat

― corey c (shock of daylight), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:05 (twenty years ago)

The Rapture career trajectory:
"Out of the Races..." - this band could go places. I love their guitar parts. superfantastic live show. The Rapture in 2001 was a force to be reckoned with.
"Jealous Lovers" - holy effing g-d. instead of telling me to shake x11, you just grabbed me by the neck and made me, and i can't stop!! forget 11, this one goes to 12.
"Echoes" - they actually live up to the hype over a whole album? that's totally insane.
"WAYUH" - whatever high school band is calling themselves "The Rapture" and releasing sub-Radio 4 tracks like this should be sued.

1000% OTM. maybe more.

― davelus (davelus), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:37 (twenty years ago)

:rolleyes:

― BeeOK (boo radley), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:39 (twenty years ago)

It's good! Sounds like it's unmastered though.

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Saturday, 15 April 2006 10:13 (twenty years ago)

boom boom boom, everybody say WAYUH....

"WAYUH!"

― Danny boy, Saturday, 15 April 2006 12:15 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was pretty good... can't wait to here more.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Saturday, 15 April 2006 15:14 (twenty years ago)

YOU GUYS SURE LOVE HYPERBOLE DON'T YOU.

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 15 April 2006 15:27 (twenty years ago)

YOU GUYS SURE LOVE HYPERBOLE DON'T YOU?

― lf (lfam), Saturday, 15 April 2006 16:15 (twenty years ago)

sounds like girls aloud actually

― don quixote, Saturday, 15 April 2006 19:38 (twenty years ago)

agh

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 15 April 2006 19:39 (twenty years ago)

and babes, that aint no bad thing.

― don quixote, Saturday, 15 April 2006 19:40 (twenty years ago)

Does WAYUH stand for something, and if so, what?

I like some things that Steve Lillywhite has done, a lot!

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:45 (twenty years ago)

I now think it sounds like that Tom Tom Club remix of Supergrass from a few years back.

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:54 (twenty years ago)

I tried to look up online what the letters stand for, but it did not work.

I found this site: http://www.subpop.com/scripts/main/bands_page.php?id=382 - it says that they make a "sonic deathfuck groove" and have a make-it-fucked-up philosophy". That sounds just terrible!

It also says they were inspired by the Byrds. I can't see that.

Anyway, I did not learn what the letters stood for. Perhaps nothing.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:11 (twenty years ago)

all I know is there's a keith jarrett record called wayuh or something similar

― simon 803 (simon 803), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:18 (twenty years ago)

scrap that. it's called fort yawuh.
dyslexic

― simon 803 (simon 803), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:20 (twenty years ago)

I made Luke a Gene Clark mix tape once, so maybe that's what they're referring to.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:21 (twenty years ago)

HI LET'S PASS FINAL JUDGEMENT ON A BAND FROM AN UNFINISHED LEAK

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:23 (twenty years ago)

that Sub Pop blurb is from their pre-DFA days, when they were more of a straight up rock band

I liked Out of the Races a lot, loved Echoes, but I gotta reluctantly agree that WAYUH sounds pretty bad. I dug some of the acid / Chicago sounding stuff on the Crash Mansion video though, so I still hold out hope ...

― Renard (Renard), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:25 (twenty years ago)

p'raps it's the band's prediction of fan reactions - "the new record is way....uh......"

or not. :)

― 6335, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:40 (twenty years ago)

And with which The Rapture opened their Essential Mix in 2003.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:33 (twenty years ago)

well that makes some sense then, i suppose.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

what is this Crash Mansion business you speak of

does it also exhibit a sonic deathfuck groove

― Roque Strew (RoqueStrew), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 23:07 (twenty years ago)

some streaming video thing that was on the web

they did a show in ny last year where they played a bunch of new stuff and it wound up in this sort of promo clip or something

I don't have the link anymore, sry

I'm sure someone else will step up

― Renard (Renard), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 00:49 (twenty years ago)

it is groovy but relatively sonic deathfuckless

― Renard (Renard), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 00:51 (twenty years ago)

I WAS THERE, AT THE RAPTURE SHOW AT CRASH MANSION
(INSERT KILLING JOKE GROOVE)

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 02:29 (twenty years ago)

of course the lyrics are dreadful, it's a matt safter song. have you ever LISTENED the the words to sister saviour? dreadful. that said i think this is pretty good.

― cartwheel (cartwheel), Thursday, 20 April 2006 01:16 (twenty years ago)

i dont get whats so bad about this. unfortunately people that are calling this unfinished should be disappointed when they do they here the finished version. listen to the backup vocals, the girls singin near the end, this is fairly produced, i wouldnt expect the final version to change that much...if at all.

turn up the bass and the song is great. lets face it, the rapture are not an incredible band, they produce songs that are played at alternative dance clubs, and this is more than enough for their audience.

plus theres no jennings...so its a poor indication of the record.

― pibb, Saturday, 22 April 2006 00:55 (twenty years ago)

It's a brilliant song. Fuck you backlash-hipsters

― Solder Bolster, Monday, 24 April 2006 11:37 (twenty years ago)

What track is Daddy Yankee going to be on again?

― Confounded (Confounded), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:00 (twenty years ago)

i think they should do a single with nelly

― lf (lfam), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:41 (twenty years ago)

i think they should do one w/tim mcgraw

― artdamages (artdamages), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:46 (twenty years ago)

what's the deal with that sample that was on the ysi thread that someone ripped off a video? cuz that shit was solid.

― Jimmy_tango, Monday, 24 April 2006 20:09 (twenty years ago)

thanks jimmy. if you're talking about the edit i did of it, i mean. if not, then i'm a jerk. the deal with it = made a full track out of about 45 seconds or whatever it was that was up there.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 24 April 2006 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Do you still have that somewhere? I think there's a lot to be said for extrapolating promo clips into full songs, to the point where they might beat the real ones! I remember a friend downloading that No Doubt promo years ago only to figure out that every song was the hook looped. Then we found out it was better than the album.

― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 24 April 2006 20:24 (twenty years ago)

there's a stream up.

it's pretty tight. i believe matty safer thought so too?

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Monday, 24 April 2006 20:31 (twenty years ago)

from Ewan Pearsons enthusiasm blog:
"So, a couple of weeks ago an unfinished monitor mix of this somehow made it onto the internet, so I guess i can talk about it here. (BTW it's not a lot of fun having your efforts pored over in public before they're even finished. At least people are interested you might say, but see how you'd like me coming into your place of work, finding something you'd been slaving over for ages and showing it all round the world before it was ready. Hurrumph.)

Likely first fruit of the new album co-produced by me and Paul Epworth (plus a few tracks from some chancer called Dangermouse). Matty Safer bemoans joyless hipster party culture over an irresistable dancefloor backing. Altogether now "People don't dance no more; they just stand there like this. They cross their arms and stare you down and drink and moan and dis." Much much more to come on the LP. Hopefully the drives are being guarded by burly and humourless sentries."

hopefully W.A.Y.U.H is fixed up around that little un-necassary break down 2.15 in. "tick, tick, tick...." it just don't work.

meh. This album will kick arse whether there's a backlash or not

― see, bro., Monday, 24 April 2006 22:59 (twenty years ago)

yeah, that's what i meant. thanks for it. i still like it a lot....so it was up on the rapture's site as a promo clip? i had for some reason thought it was taken out of a live perforance/video or something.

xpost

― Jimmy_tango, Monday, 24 April 2006 23:02 (twenty years ago)

i think i heard that gabe made it out of some stuff that they had recorded, he made a short sample of three different songs and set them to footage of the crash mansion show. i got the impression that they maybe liked the edit, but were maybe slightly annoyed that it was the first thing that some people were hearing from the record. i haven't gotten any lawyer's angry letters or anything, so if somebody does want it just drop me a line to this email.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 24 April 2006 23:12 (twenty years ago)

Talking Heads "Cities" fading in and out sounds just like it, cowbell gets put to great use, its seriously a great dance pop song. needed a couple listens to get used to the chorus at the end, but seriously its just a damn fun song.

― Charley, Wednesday, 26 April 2006 05:32 (twenty years ago)

This needs to be a breakthrough hit simply to see how MTV works around the "cunt" line. Also because it's insanely catchy and awesome, but yeah, that.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 22:30 (twenty years ago)

it's not as "RAW" sounding as their previous stuff but i think it sounds pretty awesome... love the build up at the beginning! love it! i'm REALLY looking forward to the rest of the album... dancing to this stuff at the bar is refreshing.

― c.line, Saturday, 29 April 2006 20:50 (twenty years ago)

http://therapturemusic.co.uk/crashmansion/

― grape, Friday, 5 May 2006 13:37 (twenty years ago)

Hey if someone could re-upload WAYUH to Yousendit or email it to me that would be totally amazing and I'd apprciate it alot.

-Frank

― Frank Wong, Monday, 8 May 2006 07:36 (twenty years ago)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/w-a-y-u-h-mp3.html

― kaas, Sunday, 21 May 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Another song leaked, "Get Myself Into It":

http://homersaid.blogspot.com/

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Sunday, 2 July 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, that is bad.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Sunday, 2 July 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

well i met a chap on the street who was looking for oceansize and i was sitting on a flightcase looking lost and he said he was from teh Rapture and that was cool.

― beeble (beeble), Sunday, 2 July 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

It's...OK. It'll grow like all their stuff does with repeated listening. And I don't believe anyone who says they don't dig the horn-line during the chorus...

(also on their myspace): http://www.myspace.com/therapture?

― paulhw (paulhw), Sunday, 2 July 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

HI LET'S PASS FINAL JUDGEMENT ON A BAND FROM AN UNFINISHED LEAK

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― trees (treesessplode), Sunday, 2 July 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

this is really good.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 2 July 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

really good as in really good to anally leak to?

― trees (treesessplode), Sunday, 2 July 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

The verses are shit shit shit, but the hook is awesome.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Friday, 7 July 2006 07:29 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Okay, so Pieces of the People We Love has finally leaked, and I think in its final form. Here is the tracklist:

01 Don Gon Do It
02 Pieces of the People We Love
03 Get Myself Into It
04 First Gear
05 The Devil
06 Whoo! Alright-Yeah...Uh Huh [this is what WAYUH stood for, for those still in the dark]
07 Callin Me
08 Down for So Long
09 The Sound
10 Live in Sunshine

I'm listening now, still on first listen, and I understand what people meant when they said it sounds unfinished. At least on computer speakers (I know, I know...), it sounds really tinny. I was the bass was mixed louder. If I remember correctly, that was what was great about "House of Jealous Lovers" and a lot of Echoes, actually.... really beefy bass lines that, like someone said above, grabbed you by the throat (or ankles, as the case may be) and dictated you dance.

But yes, the lyrics are truly awful.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

Icky yucky. I'm now convinced the greatness of "House of..." and "Olio" had everything to do with DFA and nothing to do with The Rapture themselves. Echoes pushed the limits of my good will, but Pieces of the People We Love is out and out trashola.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

hi dere i like gogogoairheart

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's got some pretty great tracks after 4 or 5 listens. I was initially disappointed, but it grew on me. It sounds good with headphones.

― Harpal (harpal), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 04:53 (nineteen years ago)

pbthh

― hippo eats dwarlf (lfam), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 04:55 (nineteen years ago)

Never mind. I just got the new Melvins album and it slaughtered everything I've heard in recent memory.

― Harpal (harpal), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 05:33 (nineteen years ago)

the serge santiago remix is bomb... i foind it here.

a dub version with less vocals would be great.

― grady (grady), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 06:18 (nineteen years ago)

found, no less.

― grady (grady), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 06:18 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

http://pitchfork.com/news/42799-listen-the-rapture-how-deep-is-your-love/

― mizzell, Friday, 10 June 2011 23:12 (fourteen years ago)

sounds dope

― The Reverend, Friday, 10 June 2011 23:31 (fourteen years ago)

two months pass...

http://vimeo.com/27878921

― Gukbe, Thursday, 18 August 2011 21:40 (fourteen years ago)

the synths on sail away are awesome. and the little in a silent way tribute at the end is cool too

― mizzell, Thursday, 18 August 2011 21:48 (fourteen years ago)

just a few tracks in, but this album is way, way better than i thought it would be.

― Clay, Saturday, 20 August 2011 04:49 (fourteen years ago)

this album is way, way better than i thought it would be.

^ this

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 20 August 2011 05:16 (fourteen years ago)

oh, this exists?

― my brother's a basedgod (The Reverend), Saturday, 20 August 2011 08:11 (fourteen years ago)

heard two songs off this & both were excellent

― J0rdan S., Saturday, 20 August 2011 08:23 (fourteen years ago)

The singing is rather awful on a couple of tracks.

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 August 2011 12:10 (fourteen years ago)

oh, so it's a Rapture album

― Rob Based and DJ EZ God (DJP), Saturday, 20 August 2011 14:50 (fourteen years ago)

I would never have guessed there might be awful singing on songs by the Rapture.

― my brother's a basedgod (The Reverend), Saturday, 20 August 2011 20:13 (fourteen years ago)

Well, I'd never singing on a Rapture record -- they thankfully shouted a lot.

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 August 2011 21:53 (fourteen years ago)

*never heard

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 August 2011 21:53 (fourteen years ago)

bring back the ratpure

― jed_, Saturday, 20 August 2011 21:58 (fourteen years ago)

Man, the Dusted review of this is quashing a lot of my excitement:

The rest of the album, however, is uniformly mediocre, except where it’s terrible.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 1 September 2011 13:31 (fourteen years ago)

This is dull, too much songwriting, not enough groove.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 1 September 2011 13:35 (fourteen years ago)

man, the chorus on "how deep is your love" just makes me think of sisqo

― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2011 14:58 (fourteen years ago)

The second side is terrific, especially "How Deep is Your Love" (not a Bee Gees cover), but the first half drags.

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 September 2011 15:00 (fourteen years ago)

"how deep is your love" is great even if its a weak attempt to re-capture "echoes" era agngsty anthems

i've had "sail away" on loop all day. its such an incredible opener that it took two or three listens before i realized i didn't much care for the 3 or 4 songs that followed it.

"it takes time to be a man" is a nice closer, too.

otherwise i'm not crazy into it, but i can keep the whole album on without skipping any tracks. def my most listened to album in the last two weeks, regardless.

―  (gr8080), Friday, 9 September 2011 09:20 (fourteen years ago)

jed_ otm

― spitting, shirtless man in lawyer's wig (haitch), Friday, 9 September 2011 14:32 (fourteen years ago)

playing this, on "Never Die Again"

wtf happened to the singing

I LIKED the yelpy tremulous Robert Smith-esque wailing, what is this smoothed out boring midrange shit

like, this isn't BAD, but it also isn't what I want from The Rapture

― Tal Berkowitz - Vaccine advocate (DJP), Friday, 9 September 2011 14:36 (fourteen years ago)

this album is so much damn fun; I liked the Holy Ghost album a bunch but this is basically a fifty-times-better version of that.

― punk rock hyrax (jamescobo), Friday, 9 September 2011 17:31 (fourteen years ago)

I LIKED the yelpy tremulous Robert Smith-esque wailing, what is this smoothed out boring midrange shit

agreed. the new style singing works great on How Deep Is Your Love but over the course of the album I'm not feeling it.

weak attempt to re-capture "echoes" era agngsty anthems

this song doesn't really sound like anything off Echoes to me but it's def. the best track on here

― dmr, Friday, 9 September 2011 17:41 (fourteen years ago)

The singing is rather awful on a couple of tracks.

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, August 20, 2011

― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 September 2011 17:42 (fourteen years ago)

ive never thought to myself before this record "hey that guy from the Rapture sure does a good job of singing"

―  (gr8080), Friday, 9 September 2011 18:47 (fourteen years ago)

This is mostly p boring, but "Never Die Again" and the single are jams.

― skrillex pretend (The Reverend), Saturday, 17 September 2011 22:33 (fourteen years ago)

Last song is p good too.

― skrillex pretend (The Reverend), Saturday, 17 September 2011 22:38 (fourteen years ago)

seven months pass...

Listening to this album again, and looking over the lyrics... it's about him finding Jesus, right?

― Popture, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:51 (fourteen years ago)

Yes

― mizzell, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 23:21 (fourteen years ago)

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