The Rapture - ‘Get Myself Into It’ (Universal) Released 21/08/06

Basking in a typically rain tinged, thunder-clouded English summer, The Rapture are perhaps just what the doctor ordered to reignite the Solero euphoria of our fortnight long heatwave.  Deranged “holiday” squall-to-arms characterise the unusually poppy, Summer sensibilities of ‘Get Myself Into It’: a gloriously reggae tinged, upbeat sax fuelled funk-stomp.  As ever indebted to David Byrne et-al (obviously with smaller suits), The Rapture’s latest sadly lacks the dark New Yoik paranoia and edge of their previous death disco.  Cross-eyed, skewed and angular as ever, this is let down by bizarrely inane lyrics (“don’t be late at God’s gate”).  Labels of post-punk-post-Rapture-post-my-big-toe, whatever, are inevitable, but still despite the disappointingly party-lite breeziness, this is still a very appealing holiday song prospect.  Besides, with queues as the stand and terrorists apparently ever poised, posting your suncreamed self may well be the only way of actually getting on holiday right now.