The Rapture (album)

The Rapture is the eleventh and final studio album by Siouxsie and the Banshees. The songs with cello arrangements, including the title track plus "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.

Reception

Melody Maker hailed the record at its release: "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."^[1]

Sun Zoom Spark also praised it and wrote, "How is a band that first formed almost two decades ago able to remain both vital and celebrated? Answer: Metamorphosis." The journalist announced, "the album is able to excite the hairs on the back of your neck."^[2]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Siouxsie and the Banshees, and all lyrics by Sioux, unless noted otherwise.

Produced by Siouxsie and the Banshees except tracks marked with (*): produced by John Cale; (°): produced and mixed by John Cale.

1. "O Baby" – 3:19*
2. "Tearing Apart" – 3:21*
3. "Stargazer" – 3:14
4. "Fall from Grace" – 3:43° (Lyrics: Severin)
5. "Not Forgotten" – 4:44
6. "Sick Child" – 4:49 (Lyrics: Budgie)
7. "The Lonely One" – 3:29*
8. "Falling Down" – 2:53*
9. "Forever" – 4:04*
10. "The Rapture" – 11:30
11. "The Double Life" – 4:10* (Lyrics: Severin)
12. "Love Out Me" – 4:43

Personnel

• Siouxsie Sioux: vocals
• Steven Severin: electric bass
• Budgie: drums and percussion
• Martin McCarrick: cello, keyboards and accordion
• Jon Klein: guitars
• Renaud Pion: woodwind
• Siouxsie and the Banshees: producers
• John Cale: producer* and mixer°
• Martin Brass: engineer
• Charlie Gray: engineer
• Mark Saunders: mixer

Charts

Album

Singles

References