Pieces of the People We Love

Pieces of the People We Love
Studio album by
The Rapture
ReleasedSeptember 12, 2006
Recorded2005–2006
Studio
  • Sear Sound (New York City)
  • Eastcote (London)
  • Run-Roc (New York City)
  • Glenwood Place (Burbank)
Genre
Length43:25
Label
Producer
The Rapture chronology
Echoes
(2003) 		Pieces of the People We Love
(2006) 		In the Grace of Your Love
(2011)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic74/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Blender[3]
Collective[4]
Drowned in Sound3/10[5]
The Guardian[6]
Pitchfork7.8/10[7]
PopMatters8/10[8]
Robert ChristgauA−[9]
Rolling Stone[10]
StylusB+[11]

Pieces of the People We Love is the second studio album by American rock band the Rapture. It was released on September 12, 2006 in the United States through Universal Motown Records and in the United Kingdom through Vertigo Records. It was primarily produced by Paul Epworth and Ewan Pearson, with Danger Mouse producing two tracks.[12]

This album saw bassist Mattie Safer taking a more prominent role in songwriting and also singing lead vocals on several songs, with multi-instrumentalist Gabriel Andruzzi also being involved in the band's songwriting for the first time. As a result, creative tensions arose between them and the band's co-founders, vocalist-guitarist Luke Jenner and drummer Vito Roccoforte. In 2011 Jenner said, "[Safer] also had ambitions himself, to be a songwriter, but that really came out strongly on Pieces of the People We Love. He wanted to write songs and so he started taking up a lot more space and Gabe joined the band. It became this power struggle between Mattie and Gabe and me and Vito and, um, Vito doesn't like conflict so it left me kind of versus Mattie and Gabe so I lost that one."[13]

  1. ^ "Pieces Of The People We Love by The Rapture Reviews and Tracks". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved April 9, 2020.
  2. ^ Kellman, Andy. "The Rapture: Pieces of the People We Love > Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved August 13, 2009.
  3. ^ Blender review Archived June 26, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Chapman, Anna (September 14, 2006). "The Rapture: Pieces of the People We Love". Collective. Archived from the original on July 28, 2012.
  5. ^ Dowling, Jordan (September 20, 2006). "The Rapture: Pieces of the People We Love". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on October 5, 2012. Retrieved November 20, 2009.
  6. ^ Sullivan, Caroline (September 15, 2006). "The Rapture, Pieces of the People We Love". The Guardian. London. ISSN 0261-3077. OCLC 60623878.
  7. ^ Mitchum, Rob (September 12, 2006). "The Rapture: Pieces of the People We Love". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on November 14, 2011. Retrieved September 6, 2011.
  8. ^ Raper, Dan (September 12, 2006). "The Rapture: Pieces of the People We Love". PopMatters.
  9. ^ Christgau, Robert. "The Rapture". robertchristgau.com. Retrieved August 13, 2009.
  10. ^ Sheffield, Rob (September 6, 2006). "The Rapture: Pieces of the People We Love". Rolling Stone. Wenner Media. OCLC 680063773. Archived from the original on June 6, 2007.
  11. ^ Southall, Nick (September 13, 2006). "The Rapture: Pieces of the People We Love". Stylus. Archived from the original on October 2, 2009. Retrieved November 20, 2009.
  12. ^ Pieces of the People We Love (album liner notes). The Rapture. Universal Motown Records. 2006.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  13. ^ Perpetua, Matthew (2011-08-30). "Exclusive Album Stream: The Rapture Return With 'In the Grace of Your Love'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2019-01-03.