These New Puritans

Field of Reeds is really underrated, at least here. It's a pretty incredible album, but when I saw the band here behind it it was in a half empty small club.

Heh, seems J Barnett did some church organing for Nurse With Wound in Berlin a few weeks back. Never thought about that as a connection myself, but it sort of makes sense, or at least does not obviously make not sense.

jack played the organ on some recent current 93 records and he played in the live band too when i saw them, so he is connected to that whole sphere

okay so...?

they posted something on their FB with an orchestra last year but theres been nothing since

Damn, got excited with the thread revive

..hibernation almost over.. pic.twitter.com/NhYB5LdnkI

— THESE NEW PURITANS (@TNPs) November 1, 2018

they've been working with david tibet :)

oh this is awesome news
was wondering last week if we'd ever see new music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YWz1PJSGls

that's pretty much as underwhelming as it could have been :/

liked it better on second listen, but yeah you don't get a sense of any grand sonic progression from that one song. but that's just the lead track and i'd expect a lot more depth from the album. sounds like you're right about david tibet though

I like it - happy to hear the big fuckoff percussion again

I'm keen.

cool lil song
dont really see them as a singles band tbh! stoked for this

I like this but it's probably the only TNP song that feels like it might become cloying in time, Field of Reeds was extremely good at avoiding this. You don't really go to them for sweet little melodies.

I like this. I always found that TNP was sometimes such hard work that the group's music failed to make the impact it could have done if they just reigned it in like 15%.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH4zDJXybmk
(nsfw warning)

new album Inside the Rose out 22/3

and album tracklist:
Infinity Vibraphones
Anti-Gravity
Beyond Black Suns
Inside the Rose
Where the Trees Are on Fire
Into the Fire
Lost Angel
A-R-P
Six

i like this track a lot more than "into the fire"

okay i like that new song a lot. it's very bark psychosis i think? must admit that i'm hoping for some more visceral eruptions of horrible violence on the album though to offset all this lush broodiness

It's very 'Blue' era late Bark Psychosis, esp how the band sounded live, just before they imploded.

Predictably wonderful, this song

i love this

sounding very bark psychosis makes sense, graham sutton's producing again i think

Not terribly impressed by either new track myself, but I've only listened to them once. I'll wait until the full thing's out to see what their place is in the whole, besides they're probabably growers more than anything

I am also underwhelmed tbh

I like both new songs. I like that all their albums sound v distinct from each other.

probabably

how and why do i do this

what came to mind when i heard it was the Yves Tumour album so maybe that's why imago is underwhelmed

I got a King Krule echo

If Jack had a better singing voice this band would rule so hard for me but t ain't so, sadly.

I love both of these songs. I also like that the musical vision is exploring a pendulum that's swinging back in the direction of Hidden.

Big Bark Psychosis vibe here too: not so much a track as a passing weather system. Intrigued to hear it in situ.

If Jack had a better singing voice this band would rule so hard for me but t ain't so, sadly.

exactly this

what came to mind when i heard it was the Yves Tumour album so maybe that's why imago is underwhelmed

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plot twist: have now listened again to Noid by Yves Tumor and not only heard this comparison very clearly, but FAR preferred the Yves Tumor song, lol

I'm listening to a stream of the new album now, and maybe it's the computer speakers or my cold, but it's sort of reminding me of like" Black Celebration" Depeche Mode, weirdly. I mean, def. sounds like TNP, but something kind of industrial about it, less Talk Talk-y? I'm about a third or so in, but need to take a break for other things.

that sounds about what i'd expect based on the singles, looking forward to it

Yeah I've heard a promo as well -- really quite excellent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXHJhrPa0gE

another very nice new track

doing a slot on nts channel 1 for the next hour

they’re actually playing ‘blue’ by bark psychosis, bonus point to maresnest

One more video, which I guess will be the last before the entire album drops next week?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnW__v4zBvA

I've heard the new album. The first few tracks have this 80s synth vibe that works well, then it goes soft in the middle, then the last few tracks sound like he's trying to ape Talk Talk. Meh.

managed to listen to about four-fifths of it on the way in, i think it's excellent. definitely an album album rather than just a collection of tracks. looking forward to giving it a proper listen when i'm not trying to dodge psycho taxi drivers

this is the pop Coil i needed. great album.

then it goes soft in the middle

no way! that inside the rose > trees are on fire > into the fire stretch is glorious

After the first listen: As someone who was severely underwhelmed by all the singles, it really does work better as a whole, but they might have done that annoying thing where the first track is easily the best

OK it doesn't achieve the huge step up in quality that their other albums did, but it is actually rather good. It sounds glorious at least, as expected. Stronger vocals would have helped but I can't complain too much.

This was both better and worse than I expected

Well it's not as good as Field of Reeds, that's certain. I'm still deciding how much the production carries this one