Getcher Dance On

By Tankboy in Arts & Entertainment on Nov 5, 2006 7:50PM

The Rapture is in town tonight to play a dancetastic set at Metro. They're touring to support their sophomore full-length Pieces of the People We Love. This opening paragraph is boring in all the ways The Rapture is not.

We can't make up our minds on whether the group is named after a state of ecstasy or the biblical Second Coming, but we wouldn't be surprised if it was a combination of the two. The group has built a reputation around being a live act that gets even the most lead-footed of Indie crowds to shake their scrawny, white-belt-rimmed asses. Their DFA debut hinted at this, balancing art-school-damaged angular experiments with cowbell-laden dance epics.

Pieces of the People We Love smooths out the rough edges, and what the band loses in surprise, it more than makes up for by deepening the grooves and reinforcing the rhythms. Every time we put the album in, we are suddenly transported to an alternate reality of cutting-edge beer commercials, with a sea of boys and girls from all walks dancing, and smiling, and hugging, and digging life.

Well, at least that's what we see in our head.

After tonight's live show, the boys in The Rapture will be heading downstairs to DJ at SmartBar, so pack up your cowbell and give in ... resistance is useless.