Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on February 2012

Five years since their last album and fourteen years after the original dance-punk band formed in Brooklyn, The Rapture are back with In the Grace of Your Love. With bassist and co-songwriter Mattie Safer out of the band, and frontman Luke Jenner’s mother’s suicide weighing heavily on the outfit, the album leans toward spiritual—some might say Christian—themes. Now a three-piece, the group is touring the disc in a pair of Tokyo gigs, featuring Japanese New Wave rock band The Telephones as the support act.

Liquid Room, Feb 28 and Duo Music Exchange, Feb 29 (listing).