Rapture / How Deep Is Your Love?

DFA

How Deep Is Your Love,’ a single that brings the RAPTURE back to DFA just as the label enters its 10th year, is not so much a return to form as an inspired reminder of their gift for writing songs that captivate and enthrall. More simply put, they’ve created one of the best choruses in recent memory. Set in the midst of a repeated piano house line, handclaps and a lightly buzzing synth drone, LUKE JENNER’s surprisingly gospel inflected vocals (seriously—there’s more Clara Ward in Jenner’s wail than any trace of Robert Smith), the song lifts at its chorus into a hard-to-forget trail of gently rising and falling notes. By the time you get to the sax solo—Jenner’s repeated ‘Hallelujahs’ alongside—the revival hits its peak and, thankfully, stays there. On the flipside sits UK-based EMPRERO MACHINE’s extended remix, which starts by thickening the bottom end with flanging bass, and then travels through an echo chamber of alien noise and funky, rubberized bass. ‘How Deep Is Your Love’ is the first single from The Rapture’s forthcoming album In The Grace Of Your Love, their first full length release on the DFA label. The record was recorded in Brooklyn and Paris, France, and produced by PHILLIPPE ZDAR, who has also worked with Chromeo, Phoenix, Air, Daft Punk and Cut Copy. Zdar is also one half of the duo Cassius.”—Kali Holloway

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