32. The Rapture - Echoes (2003)
Punk funk. Call this what you want. This fuses so much into one tight dynamite listening experience. Their following album was called 'Pieces of The People We Love' but they should have called this that. This is the ultimate in postmodernity, taking little bits from here, there and everywhere and adding extremity, intensity and technicolour shades on its denim sleeves. This record defined a whole summer, even though it sounds more autumnal, as I played it on the road, travelling the UK, doing street fund-raising, back when it wasn't quite so annoying to be stopped on the street. We actually did really well, taking in Belfast, Brighton and Manchester to name but three cities. I even made some Rapture jeans with loads of song titles from 'Echoes' doodled on with fabric paints. I have only just dug them up from my garage and I think I'm gonna cut them up and use them as patches as I have loads of jeans that need mending as I always end up with gaping holes in the right knee from silly nights out.
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