Supported by the always fresh, never fading DFA records, The Rapture unload their first full-length album since 2006 with a disco-punk featurette entitled In the Grace of Your Love.
Straight out of the James Murphy playbook comes a tight beat powered album that clearly has its roots out of the ground and in your face. Much like forever gone, always relevant LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture punches out tight bass line after tight bass line, accompanied by Vico Roccoforte on the drums who holds down the fort. The “fort” hasn’t always been that stable, however. Vico and Luke Jenner (vocals and guitar) are the only two permanent members of the band. There have been four other bassists used since 1999 when the band released the melodic mini-album, Mirrors. But the current bassist, Gabriel Andruzzi, adds a whole new dynamic with keyboards, bass, percussion, and even vocals smattered all over the 12 track dance-punk foot stomper.
“Miss You” is a lyrically centered, overly simplified, 4 and change mirror to the rest of the album. Very obvious, but not cliché lines like “Broken dreams and broken faces, I’ve run all the darkest races” are almost odes to old Bill Withers/Al Green Motown heart wrenching classics. The convergence of the marching drum and anything-but-manic bass gets turned up a notch with Gabriel Andruzzi’s high pitched synth melody lines and lightly layered, airy chords. The song doesn’t do much for those who want fancy builds and diverse production, but it hits the same spot that bands like Grizzly Bear hit, and it says all the same things that Florence and the Machine might say, but in a much simpler, easily digestible package. One might even go as far as to say if you like The Cure, you’ll be sure to dig this, brother.