The Rapture Have Broken Up Without Really Telling Anyone

New York dance-punk stalwarts The Rapture have officially split, their label DFA Records have told Self-Titled, with the band going out in the quietest of fashion.

Suspicions of their split were aroused when the Red Bull Music Academy referred to the band's frontman Luke Jenner as “formerly of The Rapture”, before DFA's label manager Jonathan Galkin confirmed the news, saying the band weren't interested in making any official statements about their decision to part.

Bassist and vocalist Matt Safer left the group in 2009 and the band had been largely inactive in the past couple of years, so their break-up might not be a huge surprise to some of their more dedicated fans, but for those of us who just expected they'd always be around, it's a bit weird for them to fizzle out in this way.

The Rapture released four LPs and a string of singles, which have been staples of indie dance nights around the world for years now, since forming in the late 1990s. Their final LP, In The Grace Of Your Love, was released back in 2011 through Modular Recordings in Australia and New Zealand.