The RaptureBest The Rapture Albums Ranked

Echoes

pitchfork

9.0

“Change has been boiling under ever since the decade clicked to double zeros. We've wanted more of something, and slowly we've realized what. What you're increasingly witnessing at every club, at every show, with every passing night, is the death of the horrible, awkward, uncomfortable tension of devoted music fans pretending not to enjoy music they have paid to see. Finally, we are shaking off the”

Pieces of the People We Love

pitchfork

7.8

“Three years after the still-wonderful Echoes, the former DFA band team with Paul Epworth, Ewan Pearson, and Danger Mouse to helm a more meticulous, cleaner version of their once-gritty indie-dance sound.”

Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks - EP

pitchfork

7.3

“Yeah, I know what they're talking about. Isn't it obvious? Okay, so those arrows scrawled on the record cover's juvenile map of the U.S. could be converging on any number of major metropolitan areas, historical landmarks, Denny's restaurants, etc. Just listen to the music, though, and you'll agree that this isn't about DC, NYC, Gettysburg, Amish country, or any of that crap. This is pure New Jerse”

In The Grace Of Your Love

pitchfork

7.2

“The galvanizing New York dance-punk trio returns with a long-anticipated third album that sounds like the Rapture without retreading past successes. It's a nifty trick that underscores the band's hard-won identity and it happens to come at a time when house and disco are more fashionable than any period since the early 1980s.”

In The Grace Of Your Love

rollingstone

7.0

“Click to listen to The Rapture’s album ’In the Grace of Your Love’ On their first album in five years, these New York dance punkers stumble out of the House of Jealous Lovers and into the house of God. Frontman Luke Jenner dials his diva shriek down to a gospel-inflected croon he honed singing with […]”