Review from Heathen Angel
Rapid Fiction have created a 3 track CD of edgy, dark, electronic-new-wave-indie-with-keyboards. The 'Under The Pulse' EP is essentially built up of strong and steady syncopated drum beats, sharp and piercing guitar, and the kind of vocals Brandon Flowers wanted to achieve after he'd first heard a Joy Division record. In essence, Rapid Fiction have taken everything they've loved about the bands they've listened to themselves, and tried to subtly fuse them together, with successful results.
There's still a way to go; they're only at the beginning of their journey. But this EP shows that they have something there to ensure this will be successful one. They don't quite have hooks built in yet, but rest assured, the potential is there. Give it time; Rapid Fiction are the kind of band who, by this time next year, could be dominating your CD collection and demanding your complete idolisation.
Rating: 7/10
Reviewer: Ryan Butcher

Review from Coolnoise
Rapid Fiction are fairly raw and obviously still to hone their vision but it sounds promising. They are ambitious in musical terms by trying to create less obvious melodies and structures in the interests of unsettling the listener. I particularly like the Leave Them All Behind track - it reminds me very much of Essential Bop (but I am probably the only person who remembers that Bristol Band). They will be gigging in London soon and promise much. The vocals and keyboards suggest that they have a lot to offer.

Review from Damn Pest
Intense, dark, electronic and Gothic. East Londons Rapid Fiction successfully merge the Birthday Party 80s atmospheric dirges with modern electronic rock akin to the likes of The Faint. The result is a similar edginess we encountered when first sampling Interpol. Yet Interpol now sound pompous and pretentious, Rapid Fiction have a buzz and fervour and the ability to swagger out of the doom to instil urgency and passion and an unabashed nature to preserve it. Leave them all behind is the rock track of the trio, frayed, charged guitar with swirling electronics yet is tempered with a sophisticated, elegant, almost Chameleon vocal, a vocal that does indeed bring us back to the broody days of The Comsat Angels and the aforementioned colour changing lizards. Phone is a repetitive, driving mantra that engulfs and en-trances. Yet it is in the final track Sheet Music that Rapid Fiction escape the shackles of their influences and produce a sound of their own. Introspective, atmospheric, a smoke filled silhouette that simmers just below boiling point, a tune Interpol would currently kill for.

Review from Vanity Project
Rapid Fiction is a seductively dark velvety affair, gothic swirling keyboards, early Joy Division guitars and David Byrne style vocals. The Narcostar demo has two tracks that sound like the Talking Heads man fronting early Cure, it is dark, black and dripping in eyeliner beneath a big coat. Under The Pulse is their latest demo, three tracks of dark electronic rock that builds on its predecessor. Yeah it is very 80s sounding but they do it very well and yeah you can hear many other bands in it but they end up sounding like Rapid Fiction rather than some nostalgia trip. Lots of nice little things happening like the little eastern swirl of synth in Phone while Sheet Music is pure dark cabaret and brings to mind Dream City Film Club. Bewitching pair of demos that bode well for the future.

Discourse/Narcostar gets demo of the week on Organ
Edgy, really edgy, almost fractured dark electronic new wave rock, it sounds like early Roxy, actually he sounds like Bryan Ferry and they sound like PIL, focused and wired and in danger of falling off that edge they are walking on, twisted dimensions and fighting apathy, guitar driven dark electronic music, like a Franz from the underworld, Fire Engine, The Cure. Perfectly named as well, rapid fiction indeed. From London, they are watching when it all collides. Refreshingly unsettling.

Review from Drowned in Sound
While the icicles fall off the windows and the bottom drops out of the wallet, the last thing you need after a cold Christmas is yet another band proclaiming their love of al things Le Bon et Flowers, right? WRONG.
London based four piece Rapid Fiction may have the right influences (CHECK) and the right sound (CHECK) but there you have it...and so do they!
Y'see, in these times of wishy washy eighties pilfered rehashed quagmires of aural junkfood, Rapid Fiction shine through like a beacon in the most smog cascaded blizzard.
And little wonder too when the beautifully discordant charm of 'Discourse' - all 'Speak And Spell' era Depeche Mode synths colliding with a bassline straight out of the Dengler book of D'chord polished off by the most Ferry-esque vocal since well....Bryan Ferry last gave a fuck about anything really.
Likewise the introspective 'Narcostar', which caresses Bowie's third decade-nt metamorphis and throws a new light over the phrase "new romantic".
Quite simply, the whole thing reeks of a sublimity most residents of suburban Britannia haven't witnessed since ooh...Live Aid.
4/5 Dom Gourlay