“Rapture” by Pedro The Lion

David Bazan wrote "Rapture" alone, words and music, for Control, the third full-length from Pedro the Lion, released on Jade Tree in April 2002. Control is a concept album, and a grim one: a businessman cheats on his wife, and she ends up killing him. Around that plot Bazan works through infidelity, parenthood, greed, commercialism, revenge and the fear of dying. He has said it isn't autobiography, more a record of his dismay at how the world works.

Control was also a hard turn into rock, with distorted guitars, synthesizers and loud drums, and Stereogum, marking its 20th anniversary, called it the heaviest Pedro the Lion album. Bazan has partly put the extra weight down to pressure he felt from the label to write more like the faster songs on his earlier records. The recording credit on "Rapture" goes to Bazan, Casey Foubert and Aaron Sprinkle.

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