Twenty years on from the group’s genre-splicing debut album, Mark Beaumont talks to those who were there, from The Rapture to ...

The Rapture is a goth/glam/dance band founded in San Diego by guitarist/vocalist Luke Jenner and drummer Vito Roccoforte. They were only based locally from 1996 to 2000 before moving to New York.

In the 1980s, the "thing" was two-man bands like Soft Cell, Bronski Beat, and the Pet Shop Boys: someone on the electronic instruments, the other singing. Following this form, Earnest Rapture ...