The Rapture biography
| years_active = 1998-present
| label = DFA Records
| website = Official website
| current_members = Luke Jenner (vocals and guitar)
Vito Roccoforte (drums and percussion)
Gabriel Andruzzi (keyboards, saxophone, bass guitar, percussion and vocals)
| past_members = Brooks Bonstin (bass guitar and vocals)
Christopher Relyea (keyboards and vocals)
Matt Safer (bass guitar and vocals)
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The Rapture is an Indie rock band based in New York City. The band mixes influences from many genres including post-punk, acid house, disco, electronica and rock, pioneering the post-punk revival genre. They were forerunners of the post-punk revival of the early 2000s, as they mixed their early post-punk sound with electronic and dance elements.
History
Formation
In 1998 drummer Vito Roccoforte and guitarist/vocalist Luke Jenner formed the Rapture. They released a single, "The Chair That Squeaks", on Hymnal Sound that same year. After heavy touring, they released a debut mini-album,
Mirror, on Gravity Records in 1999. Bassist Matt Safer joined the band prior to the 2001 release of the six-song EP
Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks on the Sub Pop label.
Echoes (2003-2006)
With the help of the DFA production team, the band recorded "House of Jealous Lovers" in 2003 and eventually released their first full-length album
Echoes. The album secured two Top 40 singles in the UK and also was met with critical acclaim, being awarded Album of the Year by pitchforkmedia.com and runner up in NME only to the White Stripes. Gabriel Andruzzi joined the band full time after the record was completed to help tour.
In the wake of the success of "House of Jealous Lovers", The Rapture opened for the Sex Pistols in a soccer stadium in England, and underwent a large major bidding war eventually signing with Vertigo Records out of the UK and Strummer Records (a Gary Gersh Label) both owned by Universal Music.
In January 2004, the Rapture toured with Franz Ferdinand on the NME Awards Tour.
Later that year, the band toured on the main stage of the Curiosa Festival alongside Interpol, Mogwai, and the The Cure.
Pieces of the People We Love (2006-2011)
The Rapture released their second full-length album,
Pieces of the People We Love, on Universal Motown Records in September 2006 after Strummer folded. Paul Epworth, Ewan Pearson and Danger Mouse produced the album. Recorded mostly in New York city at Sear Sound (studio of Walter Sear, partner of Bob Moog) but also recorded a few song in Los Angeles to work with Danger Mouse. The bulk of the recording being handled by Epworth and Pearson. The title track features Cee Lo Green on backing vocals.
The Rapture also toured with Daft Punk on the North American leg of their tour in 2007. Playing such venues as Red Rocks in Colorado, and the Greek Theatre in Berkeley California.
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