Now stripped to a three-piece following the departure of Mattie Safer, NYC dance-punks The Rapture are back in the studio, this time with Philippe Zdar (the producer behind Phoenix’s breakthrough album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix). And the band isn’t shy in saying their fourth full-length will school a certain new device coming to market in an interview with Pitchfork.
“Being in Paris makes the whole process seem kind of mysterious, a little magical,” says saxophonist/percussionist/keyboardist Gabe Andruzzi. “It’s going to be a mystical, magical album.” I tell him that “mystical, magical” reminds me of Steve Jobs introducing the iPad.
“Our new album’s gonna be fucking 100 times better than the iPad,” he jokes. “With this record you’re going to be interfacing with your soul in ways that have never happened before.”
On a more serious note, Andruzi, who will be taking over most bass-playing tasks in the absence of Safer, predicts the album will be ready in June or July, and describes it as “broader” that 2006’s Pieces of People We Love.
I love how brilliant French producer Phillipe Zdar, one half of Cassius, is virtually unknown on this side of the Atlantic it seems, and yet he produced this fantastic new Rapture album AND the recent breakthrough Phoenix album this hipsters have on mindless repeat with any regard for where the music came from…. do your homework kids!! Ok, after that big of slight negativity, I just wanted to say great job URB, as usual you are on the ball.