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Echoes
11/12/2003 4:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Ken Micallef
New York has been coughing up gobs of smarmy electro-punk bands lately, but none as great, goofy and gargantuan as the Rapture. Mixing sleazy pierced attitude with ragged guitars, squealing vocals and trashy drumming, the Rapture are like the world's best stripper's band, if the strippers were all flesh instead of silicone and the knife. The Rapture's local hit "House Of Jealous Lovers" made them an overnight sensation, but everyone wondered if the song's volcanic energy and white trash verve could translate into an entire album. Well, Echoes drags the club scene and the street into its caterwauling crushed-spleen sound, and how. Luke Jenner's vocals may drive you insane, but he is to be ignored anyway. Echoes is all about perp-walking bass, funky white-boy cowbell, and enough brain-goring good guitar riffs to make Keith Richards collapse in amazement. "House Of Jealous Lovers" put them on the map, and unlike most of the out-of-tune post-punk brigade, the Rapture has a second act.
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