At a time when The Strokes were reviving garage rock, The Rapture was digging into the "austere sounds of British punk-funk" like Gang of Four and PiL. The secret sauce, however, was the production team: (James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy). They took Luke Jenner’s "Robert Smith-like wail" and Vito Roccoforte’s frantic drumming and welded them to house beats and electronic bleeps. Tracklist Highlights
A format that preserves every bit of data from the original CD without the "compression artifacts" of MP3s. EAC (Exact Audio Copy): the+rapture+echoes+2003+flac+eac
If you’re spinning this (or loading the FLAC into your favorite DAC), pay close attention to: At a time when The Strokes were reviving