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.”

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