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The Rapture’s forthcoming album could only be described as one of the most eagerly awaited returns in the hearts and minds of young indie disco punks’ lockers and lockettes everywhere following their brilliant 2003 DFA collaborative effort ‘Echoes’, which stunned the disco and rock sets around then world and made the humble cowbell cool again.
Now at long last, after things on the band’s scene started to quieten down a little, as members got married and settled down a family nest for themselves, we’ve finally started to hear the first exciting rumours on their planned 2006 comeback.
After spending most of 2005, quietly camped out in the studio, the band have linked up with Bloc Party collaborator and ex-LCD Soundsystem sound engineer Paul Epworth and Chemical Brothers producer Ewan Pearson to work on the album.
With these recordings coming along swimmingly, the band have now revealed that they’ll be heading to Los Angeles next month to commence finishing duties for the album with Danger Mouse.
“We’re pleased as punch to be working with people as brilliant as Paul and Ewan and Danger Mouse,” declared The Rapture’s Matty Safer. “We started with a goal of making an album that’s an even happier Saturday night than the last one, and this record is going to be so good that even the engineers get laid off the back of it.”
He added that the band hadn’t chosen to work with the biggest producers around, but were already friends before their success. “The people we’re working with we’ve know for ages,” Safer recently told NME, “In the time we’ve been away our friends became the top producers.”
Keep an eye out for the release of The Rapture’s first single to be lifted from the forthcoming album, due to hit stores this August, with the album release sure to follow shortly after.
