

If you compare The Rapture that called it a day in 2014 to the one that was started out back in 1999, you'd think they were two different bands. Initially a post-hardcore group big on noisy guitar assaults, it wasn't until Luke Jenner and Vito Roccoforte met James Murphy's DFA production team that they started developing what would become a pioneering post-punk revival sound. Turning up the grooves and disco elements, The Rapture's DFA debut Echoes was an immediate hit in 2003. While they only put out two more records before disbanding, their influence on post-2000 indie rock lives on.