In the Grace of Your Love
- The Rapture
- Band Name: The Rapture
- Record Label: DFA
- Release Date: Sep 5, 2011
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Sep 6, 201184I will say In The Grace of Your Love makes the last five years without The Rapture seem a lot more empty, sometimes you don't know what you're missing until it returns.
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Sep 30, 201180In the Grace of Your Love is the band's most powerful and vital album thus far.
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Sep 12, 201180It may not be the Rapture many were expecting this year, but this triumphant return to form is pretty glorious nonetheless.
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Sep 9, 201180The Rapture have picked themselves up with a third album packed with ragged romps every bit as joyous as "house Of Jealous Lovers," their 2002 breakthrough. [Oct 2011, p.95]
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Aug 31, 201180If there's a major difference here, it's that the Rapture has never sounded so confident in what they're doing.
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Aug 29, 201180The collection of 11 tracks are both majestic and effortless--qualities that give the album a feeling of natural progression, perhaps bettering what's gone before.
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Aug 19, 201180The handclap stomp of "Miss You" explodes at just the right moment, while the house-music piano of "How Deep Is Your Love?" proves the boys' club credentials remain intact.
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Aug 19, 201180It looks like The Rapture--now a trio following the departure of bassist Matt Safer--have regained their despite to flaunt their slightly awkward moves. [Sep 2011, p.102]
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Sep 6, 201176With In the Grace of Your Love, The Rapture show the newbies how it's done.
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Sep 29, 201175The Rapture still do brainy, stuttering dance rock better than your average electro fetishists. [Sep 2011, p.137]
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Sep 7, 201175The Rapture's latest is both a welcome and necessary addition to its relatively small discography, a record the band should be both proud of and content to leave as the final chapter of its existence. At least until they come back again.
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Sep 6, 201175The band starts with a sometimes-tiny foundational idea, and then builds up and up, just to see how high it can go.
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Sep 6, 201175This album might actually be a devotional record of sorts--to downtown New York's musical DNA, and to the idea that dancefloor hedonism can be its own kind of grace.
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Sep 6, 201172The band's personal choices--to abandon rock iconography for smaller, more fulfilling family units--will be Grace's fate as well: a record without broader narratives, meant for those who grew up with the Rapture, or want to.
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Sep 12, 201170There's a lot of heaviness swimming around this album, and though some songs, like "In The Grace Of Your Love" and "Miss You," play it lower and slower than your average dance jam, this is still a lively record.
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Sep 8, 201170The result, for its few flaws and its exhilarations, at the very least, sounds fantastic, production-wise; Grace finds the band melding tooth-ground guitar assaults; '80s throwback candy pop; fluttery house templates; dusty, almost Stax-worthy soul getaways and sample-laced electro throbs into an album willing to sacrifice sonic exactitude for a mélange of sounds, tempos and genre exercises that still feels very much of a singular-albeit kaleidoscopic-piece.
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Sep 6, 201170With its meat-and-potatoes disco-punk beat and rousing keys, it feels like it's reaching beyond the known universe of the typical club scene.
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Sep 6, 201170It won't get you shaking your ass, but swaying eyes closed on Sunday morning has its appeals too.
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Aug 29, 201170It's not a difficult or aloof album, but there is a cool precision that feels different to the choppy punkiness of old.
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Sep 8, 201160Nearly a decade later, their new album attempts to recapture the moment of dancefloor serendipity and only occasionally do they succeed. [Oct 2011, p.99]
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Sep 1, 201160Not every song succeeds, and the best moments tend to be the danciest.
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Sep 1, 201160Some of the songs like 'Miss You' and 'In The Grace of Your Love' have genuinely good moments and are enjoyable whilst they last. However, it's hard to escape the feeling that this is a band struggling to define themselves in a musical context that no longer needs them.
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Aug 19, 201160Put this cake back in the oven; it doesn't need more icing, but it could use more substance. [Jul 2011, p.82]
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Sep 6, 201150The flashes of the old Rapture are far too few, but when they're there, In The Grace of Your Love proves that the Rapture have lived long enough to outrun their hype.
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Oct 7, 201140A flimsy and disposable album.
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Sep 6, 201140The lyrics, too, reek of a lack of inspiration.
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Sep 1, 201140One of the risks of having faith is becoming deaf to plain truths. The truth in this case is that most of In the Grace of Your Love is lousy.
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Aug 31, 201140It comprises 11 tracks that sound like intros in search of songs. It is bland of lyric and tinny of sound. The rhythms plod alarmingly.
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Sep 6, 201138The Rapture show that they are as worthy of pupils as they have been for the last decade as teachers. But, unfortunately, they still have a lot to learn.
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Sep 14, 201130In the Grace of Your Love is lethargic and shapeless. [Oct 2011, p.109]
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Sep 6, 201130Next to his material, In the Grace of Your Love sounds as forgettable as the dozens of nameless bands who came in Echoes's wake. The Rapture could still regroup on their next record, but it's difficult to see where they'd go from here.