Pieces Of The People We Love
- The Rapture
- Band Name: The Rapture
- Record Label: Universal
- Release Date: Sep 12, 2006
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100The first truly great album of the dance-punk movement. [Sep 2006, p.132]
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None of it means a damn thing beyond what it is. Which is just what they were trying so hard to achieve.
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85The Rapture sound amazingly fresh right now.
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It's good to hear these hip-shaking hipsters cutting loose with such abandon. [22 Sep 2006, p.95]
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Pieces of the People We Love is a great funky dance record with guitars, and not much more. Luckily, it doesn't need to be.
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The album offers huge choruses that suggest the New York City quartet might be the indie rock equivalent to K.C. & Tthe Sunshine Band. [#15]
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80Pieces... delivers greater consistency. [Oct 2006, p.104]
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Lots of cowbell, lots of bass. [21 Sep 2006, p.82]
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80Their second album ramps up the party beats, but at the core of delirious songs such as First Gear is a nerve-jangling twitchiness that reassures you the Rapture are still awkward guys at heart.
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The Rapture cannily sidesteps the perils of trying to live up to its own loaded legacy by excising punk from its sound and focusing on what it arguably does best: outsized, blindingly-polished pop that shakes hips like a vibrating belt. [Dec 2006, p.96]
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A less angular, more grown-up album - something that won't rattle your nerves.
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80By refocusing on the dancefloor, the Rapture remains a step ahead.
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80In the end, Pieces of the People We Love requires less investment from its listeners but offers all the dance-mayhem energy and the dueling guitar/saxophone bits that make up the band's sound.
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78It's impressive then, that even with this newfound attention to detail, the Rapture still maintain a flailing energy and enthusiasm that most of the other dancepunk bands could only fake.... However, what ultimately makes Pieces a step or three down from Echoes is a drop off in consistency, reflecting a higher percentage of songs that fail to ignite.
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It holds together better [than 'Echoes'] as a complete document, it contains at least seven potential singles, and sounds like a crack band at the top of their game.
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74The same wail-filled, guitar-driven dance music of yore, but this time with hints of rough Brit-rock sensibility, vague wafts of pared-down techno and two last tracks that make little sense to the rest of the album. [#22, p.100]
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The uniformity of the album is at the expense of clear-cut standout tracks.
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70Their follow-up finds a better balance, albeit one that teeters toward a straight party groove. [Oct 2006, p.104]
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Propulsive, addictive, ego-driven bursts.
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Mostly, it's a trip into the not-too-distant past worth taking.
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60Overall there's a sense of a moment having passed. [Oct 2006, p.123]
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60The best moments are [Jenner's] least intelligible. [Oct 2006, p.141]
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The Rapture has made a safe record.
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40And so it goes on sonic cliche after awful lyrics after terrible synth settings after lazy drum beats after... well, you get the picture.
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40It seems like they decided to go whole hog with the Duran Duran template. Not the best strategy, considering it isn't even working for Le Bon and company any more.
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The Rapture have kept all the ingredients from their previous successes, but they have forgot to ignite the oven.
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30A serious let-down. [Oct 2006, p.119]
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 15 out of 22
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Mixed: 2 out of 22
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Negative: 5 out of 22
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ThomasY1aside from the single, this album is just really bland. plus i've met these guys and they're huge pricks.
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MihaiV7This ain't no "Echoes".
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stevens9