Pieces of the People We Love

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Pieces of the People We Love
The rapture - pieces of the people we love.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 12, 2006
Recorded2005–2006
Studio
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
Metacritic 74/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Blender Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Collective Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Drowned in Sound 3/10 [5]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Pitchfork 7.8/10 [7]
PopMatters 8/10 [8]
Robert Christgau A− [9]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Stylus B+ [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]

Contents

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]

Track listing

  1. "Don Gon Do It"
  2. "Pieces of the People We Love" (produced by Danger Mouse)
  3. "Get Myself Into It"
  4. "First Gear"
  5. "The Devil"
  6. "Whoo! Alright-Yeah...Uh Huh"
  7. "Calling Me" (produced by Danger Mouse)
  8. "Down for So Long"
  9. "The Sound"
  10. "Live in Sunshine"
  11. "Shooting Star" (bonus track on copies purchased at Best Buy)
  12. "On and On" (bonus track available as a download with purchase of the UK edition)

Charts

Chart performance for Pieces of the People We Love
Chart (2006)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [14] 67
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [15] 75
French Albums (SNEP) [16] 77
Irish Albums (IRMA) [17] 52
Scottish Albums (OCC) [18] 39
UK Albums (OCC) [19] 40
US Billboard 200 [20] 113

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