Kudos to Dorian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/oct/07/these-new-puritans-hidden-interview
― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Friday, 8 October 2010 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks Nick. They were exactly how I wanted them to be.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Friday, 8 October 2010 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Extremely good article -- got me interested in the band singlehandedly!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 October 2010 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Bump.
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 29 October 2010 05:21 (thirteen years ago) link
All about Fire-Power.
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 29 October 2010 05:46 (thirteen years ago) link
The music's pretty interesting, but the singing reminds me of Audio Bullys. Also could do with some metal guitars here and there.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 12:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm very, very glad at the absence of metal guitars.
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 12:35 (thirteen years ago) link
^ see the last paragraph of Dorian's piece linked above
― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 12:36 (thirteen years ago) link
But yeah, I could see how they might work in a Young Gods or Tricky 'Black Steel' way.
― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 12:38 (thirteen years ago) link
There are just a couple of drops that could use a bit more oomph, and some nice crunchy guitars would do it for me.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 12:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Man I really slept on this record this year. Amazing stuff, it's like Mezzanine-era Massive Attack meets Nine Inch Nails meets MIA meets Benjamin Britten meets a really half-arsed singer.
Actually, the vocals are fine if you think of them as imitation 3D or Karl Hyde or someone. But yeah, kind of stunned that anyone would even try and make an album like this, let alone pull it off.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 November 2010 11:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Also I would like to hear Dan Perry's opinion on this.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 November 2010 11:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I have a favorable bias towards this album but get quickly bored whenever something comes up on shuffle on the ipod - I guess that might not be the best way to get into it.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 25 November 2010 11:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah I can imagine it wouldn't sound too great popping up between Tensnake and Nicki Minaj but that's the same with most dark, album-oriented rock music.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 November 2010 11:25 (thirteen years ago) link
So are they the reason The Fall left Domino?
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 November 2010 11:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I am massively intrigued by your description and would like to subscribe to your newsletter
― lol tea partiers and their fat fingers (HI DERE), Thursday, 25 November 2010 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
These are the last two singles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vasNDS9BXJI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suLfDbNHw7c
There's various live stuff on Youtube too, but I don't think that stuff translates as well.
― Krampus Interruptus (NickB), Thursday, 25 November 2010 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I've listened to the first 4 tracks on this now and HOLY SHIT
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Monday, 29 November 2010 19:59 (thirteen years ago) link
well that took long enough!
― i look at the interior of my sack and feel sad (ilxor), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 04:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm really not sure what to make of this on my first listen, really surprised the NME made it album of the year.
Did anyone notice the first thirty seconds of Fire-Power sound very similar to Scritlocks Door by Scritti Politti? especially the vocals.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I've tried fairly hard to get into this because I like artists who try and do something different, but I can't really. Not to say it's bad, just probably not for me.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
idg this album at *all* apart from the big single, as I've said
― gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Thursday, 2 December 2010 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
that's because you're crazy
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Indeed. I don't understand how you can love We Want War and not get the rest. It's all of a piece.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
It's mostly not that different from the big single so you're probably going on some weird Hongroesque ideological stance about song length or number of sections, right?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
It's totally song length snobbishness, considering that the most immediately involving song on the album to my ears is "Three Thousand".
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
hmm
maybe listening to the individual songs on Youtube isn't the best way to approach this record
although stuff like 'attack music' and 'hologram' and 'fire-power' doesn't grab me
we want war just has a way cooler build and narrative flow, plus the choral and woodwind chord-progressions in the second half are staggering
― gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
try maybe listening to the album before announcing that the entire thing is terrible...?
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
it totally ISN'T song-length snobbishness, although there's a possibility that what they're trying to do is best served by a lengthier canvas - all about subtle shifts and increments
Dan the thing is that I have listened to all the songs! Just not in order
― gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
If there's one thing this album ISN'T about it's subtlety.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
well, there's something that seems sophisticated and fully worked-out about WWW, especially in the chord-sequences and sonic layering, that lacks in the other songs - maybe I'll come round to them
― gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
I decided to check out earlier stuff by them and was repelled by the first 10 seconds of "Elvis", after which it suddenly became incredibly compelling
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, at least The Horrors had the decency to follow up their staggering epic 'wait this isn't that scrawny buncha garagey tryhards' preview single with an album that kinda lived up to it
haha ok I'll stop now
― gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
no you won't
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
don't get you can you like "we want war" and not "drum courts"
― kamerad, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
ok yeah who's 2011's breakout indie-gone-classy band gonna be, dibs on Two Door Cinema Club
― gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
there's a distinct sense of nerdiness to this band...or maybe it's that it's ambitious in a really transparent way, like they're just forcing together all these elements and it doesn't quite work for me.
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:34 (thirteen years ago) link
not a big fan of the album as a whole either, it's kind of monotonous and cold and humorless. sounds like liars without the elements of fun and chaos. i do like "we want war."
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm a sucker for the great reich-ian art/prog rock jams on this album, like "5," which even has what sounds like an oboe or two
― kamerad, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
monotonous and cold and humorless
A massive selling point! (Well, for me.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
This is a really creative album and I'm happy it's getting some love in the UK
― PEAVEY Ó))) (Ówen P.), Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Ned, have you investigated this yet?
― Krampus Interruptus (NickB), Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
well, "5" is really good as well. but the rest can hang.
― RIP la petite mort (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 17:36 (4 months ago)
― gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Its undoubted creativity is what's making me sad that it's not clicking for me. I'd like to explore its nuances, but that would involve actually listening to it.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
NickB: Not the full album but the singles = A+. Planning on snagging it later this month but right now the backlog of stuff to work through sits next to my desk and mocks me...
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh okay. Wasn't sure how much you were aware that this was a Graham Sutton production.
― Krampus Interruptus (NickB), Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Believe me, that is a further selling point.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
If this album wasn't so relentlessly monochromatic, I would not be nearly as into it.
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Thursday, 2 December 2010 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Fire-Power was the standout to me ofl.
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 2 December 2010 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link
So much Brit press love now. This American wasn't as hip as the ones above on this thread to know about these guys till now.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 December 2010 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Field of Reeds is if anything a little bit too diffuse in places, in that the bits that aren't incredible just drift away a little. The new one has a lot more shape to it.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 08:32 (four years ago) link
at a certain point i could see this being my album of the year. every time i put it on it's an almost overwhelming experience of depth and beauty lol
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 14:17 (four years ago) link
i'm not sure what the end of "beyond black suns" reminds me of but my god
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link
depeche mode plays slowdive's pygmalion
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 14:31 (four years ago) link
reminds me of Air 'New Star In The Sky' a little bit
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
Only just hit me the other week the similarity of Where The Trees Are On Fire's chords to the coda of the Beach Boys 'Surf's Up' (also therefore in turn I suppose 'La Ritournelle')
― nashwan, Monday, 23 September 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
I'm currently listening to Field of Reeds on a pair of £50,000 Linn speakers and *fucking hell*.
(Not my speakers, obviously)
― Matt DC, Thursday, 26 December 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
Envious
― doug watson, Thursday, 26 December 2019 22:00 (four years ago) link
NEW MUSIC Listen here:https://t.co/aG0LLIzWqMthank you to RUSHMORE HIGH SCHOOL for their dystopian vocalsTHE MIRAGE is a song we originally wrote when we were 16 , now reformed.more soon – - tnpX pic.twitter.com/bpjTItrQsB— THESE NEW PURITANS (@TNPs) January 29, 2020
― nxd, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 13:57 (four years ago) link
This song is kind of silly but I am still digging it hardcore
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:27 (four years ago) link
very few bands can pull off a non-horrible song with a kids' choir; TNP is thankfully one of them
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Thursday, 30 January 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link
Absolutely loved Inside The Rose
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 6 May 2022 20:44 (two years ago) link