If you were as surprised as us about Mattie Safer’s seemingly sudden departure from the Rapture last week (personally, we thought Luke would leave first), then the following explanatory Tweets–sent via the bassist/DJ’s account a few minutes ago–are for you…
As a longtime fan of the Rapture (go snag their sorely-overlooked Pieces of the People We Love LP right now if you haven’t already), we wish Mattie the best of luck with whatever he decides to do next. Lucky for him, he’s in that rare field of band dudes who can actually DJ, so if nothing else, there’s always his free weekly JAMS party with Nick Catchdubs and DJ Lindsey to tide us New Yorkers over for now…