Some awesome songs, some mediocre songs. Echoes was amazing. This album is just good.

sometimes it sounds like inxs making a cover of the funkier stones with robert smith on the vocals. i loved echoes,this is a delusion

En-rapture-ing. (I am so SO sorry, readers!)

Dont believe what you hear in the reviews. The sophomore effort by the Rapture is a lot more fun then Echoes. Yeah, i said fun. But when you are talking about dance-punk and the Rapture style, more fun= what you want= a better album then echoes= a damn solid album.

Yeah - this album is fantastic. Better than Echoes, this is the funky, sexy, frenetic album Echoes only hinted at. Plus - given the circumstances surrounding my hearing it, the fact that I can still listen to it, associated as it is with that whole unrequited-love situation played out ad nauseum (i.e. once), is downright extraordinary. Like, that situation has prevented me from listening to Junior Boys for the past week or so - and that album's incredible, too - so judge this one accordingly. I'm so emo.… Expand

The best album of the year so far. They did it again. First Gear, The Devil and The Sound the highlights in an album that does not have weak points.

Not as good as echoes but still awesome, every song is good

This album is great. You can't expect everything to be deep, sometimes an artist has a different focus. But, the lyrics do have some great points in them. The album sets out to fix a problem in our musical world... they sum this problem up in "Whoo! Alright- Yeah...": "People don't dance no more, they just stand there like this, they cross their arms and stare you down, they drink and moan and piss."… Expand

I really love it! Really grew on me.

Lacks to sprawling rough punkness of Echoes, instead offering fine-tuned fade-in/fade-out individual songs. While I miss the unpredictability of Echoes, some of these tracks are just a blast to listen to. It's an album that definitely has it's missteps ("First Gear" "Callin Me") and its unmistakable hits ("Don Gon Do It" "WAYUH").

there's just one really really good song: "the sound".

Almost anyone can play Cowbell, and not everyone can sing including this weak, flacid Rapture vocalist who nearly misses every note. He could probably fart more in tune or at least be on beat with that annoying cowbell; complete Crapture.

Cheap music for cheap people...The cover, the new video, even the single is a ridiculous tune...Straight to the bin

Great album...more refined than Echoes, which had a harsh edge that worked perfectly for it, but they had to evolve somehow and this was a very satisfying way to do it.

Funky raunchy electro meets Talking Heads... Far better than the last excursion... And it passes my favourite test... On first listen I loved it all! Hooks Funk Fun Ferocity... What else do you want?

This ain't no "Echoes".

aside from the single, this album is just really bland. plus i've met these guys and they're huge pricks.

does anyone read lyrics anymore? this album is full of tread over, BORING lyrics. who cares if it is "fun" when it's not going to last the test of time?

The Rapture made two decent ep's for Gravity and Sub Pop before catching a meal ticket with indie rocks answer to Pharrel and making the most embarassing album of their career (Echoes). Now, they've ditched DFA and, to celebrate their independence, have made a puff of air every bit as generic and derivative as the other two aforementoined hacks. Depressing.

anyone who talks crap about the DFA is not intelligent enough to comprehend the magnificence of Echoes and the sheerly ridiculous amount of energy to be found on Pieces of the People We Love. buy this album now, and prepare to dance uncontrollably for quite some time.