Pieces of the People We Love by The Rapture

Pieces of the People We Love, the Rapture's second album, landed on September 12, 2006, on Universal Motown in the US and Vertigo in the UK. The New York dance-punks spread the production around: Paul Epworth and Ewan Pearson did most of it, and Danger Mouse took two tracks.

The record is slicker and more pop-minded than Echoes, all cowbell-clanging disco-punk, rubbery bass and chanted choruses built for sweaty rooms. "Get Myself Into It" is the one that stuck, a strutting, sax-honking floor-filler, and the title track is just as jittery. Behind the party, the band was pulling apart: bassist Mattie Safer was writing more and singing lead on several songs, multi-instrumentalist Gabriel Andruzzi was writing for the first time, and tensions grew with co-founders Luke Jenner and Vito Roccoforte, a fight Jenner later said he lost.

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