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Released | 16 January 1995 14 February 1995 (US)[1] | |||
Recorded | 1993–1994 | |||
Studio | Studio du Manoir (Léon, France) and Wessex (London) | |||
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Length | 54:13 | |||
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The Rapture is the 11th and final studio album by English alternative rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees. The songs with cello arrangements, including the title track as well as 'Fall from Grace' and 'Not Forgotten', were produced by the band on their own in 1993. John Cale later produced the remaining songs in mid-1994.
Recording and release[edit]
After composing songs in Siouxsie and Budgie's house near Toulouse, France, in March and April 1993, the band went to Léon near Biarritz. They produced the first part of the album at Studio du Manoir in May. At the beginning of 1994, they recorded the final songs in London, this time with producer and former Velvet Underground member John Cale, who had previously produced albums that the band liked such as Patti Smith's Horses and the first Modern Lovers album. Cale also mixed one track, 'Fall from Grace', from the previous recording session.
In the UK, Polydor only released the album on both CD and cassette, whereas in the US, Geffen also released it on vinyl LP.
This album was remastered for CD in 2014 with three bonus tracks, including a previously unreleased song called 'FGM', and 'New Skin', a song recorded for the Showgirls soundtrack of the Paul Verhoeven film of the same name.[2] 'New Skin' has got a different mix and is longer than on the original Showgirls album. From then and on all further reissues, 'Stargazer' has got a different mix: the Mark Saunders mix was included instead of the original mix initially made by the band.
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A double vinyl reissue of the album, remastered from the original ¼” tapes and cut half-speed at Abbey Road Studios by Miles Showell, was released in December 2018.
Critical reception[edit]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [3] |
Select | 4/5[4] |
Vox | 7/10[5] |
Melody Maker wrote: 'The Rapture is a fascinating, transcontinental journey through danger and exotica'. Describing the arrangements, they added, 'it's a vivid cornucopia of lush instrumentation, mandolins vying with cellos and bells, sweeping strings describing starlit oceans and sirens calling from jagged rocks, and attics that hide secret worlds'.[6] Steve Malins of Vox also liked the album. He said, 'The title-track is a sublime melodrama recalling the experimentation of Peepshow and 1982's Kiss in the Dreamhouse', before concluding with this sentence, 'The Rapture represents an intelligent twist on familiar Banshees obsessions'.[5] Liz Buckley of Sun Zoom Spark also praised it, writing, 'How is a band that first formed almost two decades ago able to remain both vital and celebrated? Answer: Metamorphosis'. Buckley also declared that 'the album is able to excite the hairs on the back of your neck'.[7]Select gave it a rating of 4 out of 5, hailing the band as 'purveyors of scary pop par excellence'. Matt Hall noted the ability of the group for 'trotting out jolly tunes about mental breakdown, love bordering on obsession and severely dislocated relationships.' The reviewer characterised The Rapture as a 'fine little Russian doll of a record', and said, 'Under the keyboard lines, swelling strings and OTT percussion, at the centre of every song is a nugget of disquiet that keeps you listening again and again.'[4]
Writing in the 2004 edition of The Rolling Stone Album Guide, Mark Coleman and Mac Randall rued that Siouxsie and Budgie's interest in their side project, the Creatures, 'spelled doom for the Banshees' in the 1990s. They described The Rapture as 'a lackluster affair now mercifully out of print'.[8]
Track listing[edit]
All tracks produced by Siouxsie and the Banshees except tracks 1-2 and 7-8-9 produced by John Cale. Track 4 produced by Siouxsie and the Banshees and mixed by John Cale.
All music composed by Siouxsie and the Banshees, except bonus tracks 'FGM' by Siouxsie/Jon Klein and 'New Skin' by Siouxsie.
All lyrics are written by Siouxsie Sioux, except where noted.
No. | Title | Lyrics | Length |
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1. | 'O Baby' | 3:19 | |
2. | 'Tearing Apart' | 3:21 | |
3. | 'Stargazer' | 3:14 | |
4. | 'Fall from Grace' | Severin | 3:43 |
5. | 'Not Forgotten' | 4:44 | |
6. | 'Sick Child' | Budgie | 4:49 |
7. | 'The Lonely One' | 3:29 | |
8. | 'Falling Down' | 2:53 | |
9. | 'Forever' | 4:04 | |
10. | 'The Rapture' | 11:30 | |
11. | 'The Double Life' | Severin | 4:10 |
12. | 'Love Out Me' | 4:43 |
No. | Title | Length |
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13. | 'O Baby' (Manhattan mix) | 3:27 |
14. | 'FGM' (Unreleased demo) | 3:05 |
15. | 'New Skin' (Unreleased Showgirls long version) | 8:06 |
Personnel[edit]
- Siouxsie Sioux - vocals
- Steven Severin - electric bass
- Budgie - drums and percussion
- Martin McCarrick - cello, keyboards and accordion
- Jon Klein – guitars
- Additional personnel
- Renaud Pion - woodwind
- John Cale - producer and mixer
- Martin Brass - engineer
- Charlie Gray - engineer
- Knox Chandler - guitar on 'New Skin'
- Gary Barnacle, Peter Thoms, Luke Tunney and John Thirkell [uncredited] - brass section on 'New Skin'
Charts[edit]
Album
Year | Chart | Position |
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1995 | UK Albums Chart | 33 |
1995 | US Billboard 200[9] | 127 |
Singles
Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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1995 | 'O Baby' | UK Singles Chart | 34 |
1995 | 'O Baby' | U.S. Modern Rock Tracks | 21 |
1995 | 'Stargazer' | UK Singles Chart | 64 |
References[edit]
- ^Sprague, David (7 January 1995). Siouxsie Sioux Trades.. Billboard. p. 13.
- ^'Siouxsie and the Banshees relaunch archival campaign, new reissues due out in October'. Consequenceofsound. 22 August 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
- ^Ogg, Alex. 'The Rapture - Siouxsie and the Banshees'. AllMusic. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
- ^ abHall, Matt. 'Siouxsie and the Banshees The Rapture - review'. Select. February 1995.
- ^ abMalins, Steve. The Rapture review. Vox. February 1995
- ^Unsworth, Cathi. 'Baby, Come back'. Melody Maker. 14 January 1995.
- ^Buckley, Liz. 'Siouxsie and the banshees'. Sun Zoom Spark. January 1995
- ^Coleman, Mark; Randall, Mac (2004). 'Siouxsie and the Banshees'. In Brackett, Nathan; with Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 740–41. ISBN978-0-7432-0169-8.
- ^'Billboard 200 for Week Ending March 4, 1995'. Billboard. 4 March 1995. p. 95. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
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By the time Siouxsie and the Banshees released The Rapture in 1995, they had been together for almost two decades. They'd blazed a path with a dark and daring sound that still had just enough pop to entice two generations of spooky youngsters, and you will never for a second find me saying that Siouxsie and Steve Severin should be considered anything other than two of the most important names in goth composition.
But their final, 11th album remains a total mess. Even for a band that was always known for tackling a lot of different angles on their records there is an incredibly fractured feeling that you can't get past.
Part of it is that the band was pretty clearly staying together at that point because they were, commercially speaking, a very successful live band in the mid-'90s. They'd been a major act in the first Lollapalooza, and were enjoying the fruits of a long and productive career, even if they never seemed terribly comfortable with that label. Both Siouxsie and Severin said in interviews around that time they didn't consider themselves either old or iconic.
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You'd think that having John Cale produce and album would be the absolute best thing to wed those two points back together, but it wasn't enough. I know many goths who scream that Cale should not have been allowed anywhere near the record, but the songs that he produced are honestly not in any significant way different than the work of the band on their own. Having said that, not much good comes of splitting up your album under two creative forces in two different time periods as they did, something that contributes heavily to the dissonance.
Which is sad because taken individually many of the tracks on Rapture are perfectly awesome. 'Fall From Grace' for example is Siouxsie in her most eloquently melancholic. The song has all the earmarks of a great Banshees number, what with her stream of consciousness and somewhat violent lyrics over an almost night club progression.
Or you could look at 'Sick Girl,' which is a rarity in the banshees catalog in that Budgie wrote the lyrics. You might remember it from a pretty neat scene in a pretty awful movie called The Craft. It's an unnerving little tune that harkens back to Juju. If there's anything that the Banshees had been missing lately it was the ability to disturb, their contribution to Batman Returns notwithstanding.
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Songs like that are honestly the meat on some very moldy bread, though. The two lead singles, 'O Baby' and 'Stargazer' sound more like b-sides from Superstition than new and exciting work. Shouldn't that be a good thing?
After all, Superstition is a fantastic record with gems like 'Kiss Them for Me' and my favorite Banshees tune of all, 'Shadowtime.' Yet it's also the record that was most clearly aimed at the mainstream in production, and that's just a big no-no most of the time in goth music.
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Lurking in The Rapture are two very good EPs that tried very hard to be an album. The ending of the record, starting with the brilliant but epic-length title track, could have stood as its own as a kind of omni-single. Stuck as it is past the broken glass of the earlier executions you just don't have the patience to wade through it, and that means you miss 'The Double Life.' Birthed from the beginning of all the '90s would become in music, the song is wonderfully insane and hard-rockish.
That's the problem, though. In the end the Banshees were tired of being the Banshees by then. Just as a man who has lost his passion for a certain song can still play it flawlessly, they could grab the tiger by the tail to churn out great work. These songs, in the hands of an earlier incarnation or maybe even another full-time producer, could have been gold.
Instead, Siouxsie's powerful pipes sound reedy, and Severin's playing lacks passion. Budgie alone goes full-tilt boogie, but he's basically a human Muppet without an off switch, so that's to be expected. The Rapture disappoints because it is so obviously asking to be the end of the legendary band.
Tune in tomorrow for more of the Five Most Disappointing Goth Albums.
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