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While not a bad album judging by the first listen, it was hardly the masterpiece I expected it to be. I was prepared for something like Highway 61 Revisited, based on what I had read about it. Unfortunately, after that first listen the album grew less and less interesting every time I listened to it, until it settled somewhere around the 3-star mark (where it's likely to stay). There are some good songs here- those Dylan wrote and "The Weight" in particular, but the rest of the album tends to drag a bit. It's good to play once in a while, but there isn't enough great music or variety here to warrant many repeated listenings over a shorter period of time (once a month might be too much). I suppose that it was worth the six bucks I paid for it, maybe just for those four standout tracks, but much more than that would have been a stretch. Don't be too hyped up for it or you'll likely be disappointed, but other than that it's worth at least a listen.

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

good point

or something

DEMOCRACY RULZ!

― bb (bbrz), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

Bowling Green Independent Student Press
November 07, 2003

The Rapture
Echoes
Universal Records
Grade: A

by Rachel Bobak

The incredible incorporation of musical talent will astound any person who listen to The Rapture.

Their new album, Echoes, will definitely do just that in your ears for an extended period of time.

The Rapture cannot be placed in a certain genre of music, because their idiosyncratic sound is amazingly different.

The four band members of The Rapture include Gabriel Andruzzi (saxophone, percussion); Luke Jenner (vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion); Vito Roccoforte (drums, percussion) and Mattie Safer (vocals, bass, keyboards, percussion).

The Rapture can be considered the modern-day Pink Floyd during the Syd Barrett era.

Their musical genre can range between electronica to the good-ole classic rock.

Luke Jenner and Mattie Safer use their vocalistic talent to create whiny and echo-type voices for an intriguing sound.

When listening to this incredibly bizarre album, there will be a time for bouncing to the beat of the music. It's an impulse that cannot be controlled by any system in the human body.

The Rapture can be very uncanny to the fact that Pink Floyd has the same album title.

Pink Floyd could have been their major influence to write music. The Rapture's lyrics are not honed by any real emotion; only the music can capture the reality of a person's feelings.

This album is addictive. The Rapture is almost like nicotine for the music blood. Once it is inhaled, there will be wanting and having. The promise of The Rapture becoming famous in the near future is a possibility.

They have their musical talent and exchange of interior emotion to pull them through.

Their impressive talent can be interspersed among the college and teen population as well as across the nation.

Their collaboration of instruments entertains the body as well as the mind.

The Rapture can enrapture their audience into the addiction of their music.

No matter how insane the lyrics may be, the music will linger. The Rapture will either impress or will be detested. You decide!

-- Rachel Bobak

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

The Rapture can be considered the modern-day Pink Floyd during the Syd Barrett era.

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

i would post every pitch i got here if it wasn't in totally bad form (and could possibly get me fired).

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

HEY JESS, I GOT A FEATURE IDEA ABOUT...GET THIS!...2 NEW YORKERS THAT ARE REALLY RE-ENERGIZING THE DOWNTOWN SCENE....YOUR GONNA LOVE THIS, THEY CALL THEMSELVES, THE DFA...AS IN DEATH FROM ABOVE, REALLY MAJOR STUFF HAPPENING.

DO U LOVE IT?

ITS OUTSTANDING STUFF!

C'MON DO U LOVE IT??

― SIA MICHAELS BIG FAT CUNT (ddb), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

i got one yesterday from a guy who wanted to write a first-person essay about trying to get an air turntablist movement going.

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

you guys seen that show "TRAILER PARK BOYS"? one of the characters, white canadian rapper J-Roc, does air-turntablism.

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

haha jess that's awesome.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

i wld be such a bad editor b/c i would totally like cut stuff to give ppl WAAAY too much room for stuff like that then i would "edit" them to make them less sensical.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

I read that review as a Wesley Willis song.

― Alex in Novosibirsk (ex machina), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

The Rapture can be very uncanny to the fact that Pink Floyd has the same album title

oohhhh shit!
wait... what?

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

uncanny like x-men

― elmo (allocryptic), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

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