The Rapture Break Up, Don't Tell Anyone - self-titled
"I kept thinking it might blow over, but that might not be the case"
www.self-titledmag.comHere’s the latest I can share based on recent reporting:
If you’d like, I can pull more current sources or summarize fan-site coverage and mainstream outlets to confirm whether there have been any fresh developments after spring 2025.
Illustration: a quick look at their activity timeline shows a peak era in the mid-2000s, a quiet breakup in 2014 per multiple outlets, a 2019–2020 reunion phase, and touring in 2025–2026 with no clear confirmation of new recordings. For precise dates and quotes, I can fetch the latest articles and provide direct citations.[4][9]
"I kept thinking it might blow over, but that might not be the case"
www.self-titledmag.comIn a recent interview with Consequence of Sound, lead singer of The Rapture, Luke Jenner, hinted at the potential release of a new album. Fans of the dance-punk group might be in luck based on some of the implications from Jenner. The band broke up in 2014 for various reasons, one of the biggest being Jenner’s quest
music.mxdwn.comIt looks like New York disco-punks The Rapture have parted ways a while ago. But unlike other bands they didn't inform their fan base about it.
nbhap.comThe Rapture have announced a run of tour dates across Europe and North America for later this year. The run of 26 shows is billed, in a press release, as the group’s “first proper headline tour in 15 years”, though although they did play a small number of reunion shows in 2019 and 2020. This latest […]
thequietus.comAlso: New dates for Chris Brown, Das Racist and Theophilus London
www.rollingstone.comIt’s summer 2003 and as the UK basks in the highest temperatures and finest sunshine in years, and The Rapture are dubbed the hottest band in the world after their stunning debut album
www.clashmusic.comAll signs point to the New York dance-punks the Rapture quietly breaking up. As Consequence Of Sound points out, a press release for an upcoming Red Bull Music Academy event in New York lists guitarist and passionate hyena-yawper Luke Jenner as “formerly of the Rapture.” When self-titled sought clarification, Jonathan Galkin of DFA Records responded…
stereogum.comDance-punk band the Rapture has announced its first headlining tour in 15 years.
variety.com