Blog: Strangeglue

Royal Bangs: Let It Beep

Anyone remember The Rapture? They were supposed to be the band that revolutionised rock by pairing it with danceable grooves and sublimely zany melodies. The fact that we had to ask illustrates that it went wrong somewhere. Anyone buying their second/breakthrough album found it to contain two or three or the previously mentioned type with the rest of the running time being padded out by dull low-tempo synthesizer plods.