These New Puritans

seriously though, this is the type of music I hear in my head

ilxors moaning about pitchfork scores?

not ratings based

i think we have been over this in multiple excruciating pfork threads

I don't read those (why because I am not crazy/masochistic)

"Fire-Power" is badass, huh

Isn't it ratings based? Like, 8.5 and up = BNM?

if i recall, they've given BNM to albums as low as 8.2 (maybe 8.1 even) that fit the core "indie rock" readership/demographic, while a bunch of stuff has gotten 8.3-8.5 range and not BNM -- usually it's metal, hip-hop, something noisy/experimental, etc.

not bitching about that btw, i think it makes sense given pfork's target readership

This whole album is fucking awesome.

i listened to this obsessively in Q1, need to pull it out again

This whole album is fucking awesome.

QFT

http://sickmouthy.wordpress.com/2010/12/19/hidden-until-now/

ok I'm seriously gonna have to give this a proper listen

Finally listening to the full thing myself. Such a perfect cold, pristine melodrama; the sequencing is essential.

Ned Raggett: NME apologist

Motherf***ers act like they forgot about V.A.S.T.

Damn, haven't thought of them in years...

Who/what is VAST?

trust me, you are better off not investigating

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRXW1thQtPM

so, "we want war" placed in the year-end tracks poll, and i didn't like it very much (or thought i didn't), but found myself going back to it over and over again, blasting it on headphones, until i had to admit that there must be some way in which i DO like it or i wouldn't be wasting so much time. so i went out this afternoon and bought the previous album, beat pyramid, cuz that's all they had down at the shop. and it's cool, but i'm disappointed that it's so straight rock and doesn't contain any of the spooky avant-classical detailing that makes "we want war" so strangely compelling. what it does have is lots of brutalist post-punk beat mongering and angry this heat vocals, both of which i can get with. ordered a copy of hidden and am pissed now that i have to wait for it. curse you, material world.

Hidden is so so so good

Any word of a new album?

All I heard is that they're working on it, that they're on a new label and there was this quote in the NME last year:

These New Puritans have said they have ditched plans to make a more radio-friendly third album, as they've "discovered we actually hate pop music."

Singer Jack Barnett said of the idea to record a poppier album: "I've sort of abandoned that idea. I've realised I actually hate pop music. Most people don't like good music so there's no point trying to do something for them."

http://www.nme.com/news/these-new-puritans/56765

New song:

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

Sounds like a work in progress really.

New album is called Field of Reeds. More info soon. Graham Sutton produced and emailed me a few weeks ago to say it's the best thing he's ever worked on. I am, as you say, excited.

Feels like I've been waiting for this news for so long I've kind of come out the other side. Revisited Hidden a couple of weeks back and although it's still a great record, the beats sounded really clunky, so my one big wish for this is that they've progressed on that side of things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21BT57D9AlI

I'm liking the atmosphere and especially the trumpet(?) on that sample, again they seem to be drawing that line from Talk Talk-ish post-Miles ambience to some sort of baroque processional music like Purcell or something.

omg

I'm wondering what they're going to do about the voice problem, but it sounds like one they're at least aware of themselves. But I'm really stoked for this, that sample sounds like this could be incredible.

that's gorgeous

Loving this already!

New song up on Soundcloud:

https://soundcloud.com/these-new-puritans/fragment-two

Vocals are really bad and the arrangement gives them nowhere to hide, kinda think they need to be more blood and thunder to get away with it.

Vocals don't bother me at the beginning, anyway; we'll see how this develops

Meantime

http://pitchfork.com/features/update/9128-these-new-puritans/

so did Pitchfork actually not listen to Hidden, because everything they're describing on this new album was on there

Not quite everything.

damn I don't think I've ever listened to this band before but the new album rules. honestly had no expectations to speak of. hope it gets the blowjobbiest of reviews

good to hear, have only seen the (positive) review in the wire so far. comparisons to the mark hollis solo record - sound about right?

never heard it but the ~textures~ are v Talk Talk and dude's solo album was more out there, as I understood it? so er quite possibly

Wow they really aren't even nominally a rock band any more are they?

How the FUCK did a class of 2007 NME-friendly indie band end up making this record? It sort of reminds me of Messiaen and Taverner in places, the idea of a band who came up in the same wave as The View and The Enemy making this just does not compute.

where are you guys hearing it, via a stream or other means

The latter. Only listened to it once and there's a lot to absorb, even though it's very subdued and mostly sombre, but it sounds lovely.

Also lol @ them roping in a Portuguese fado Singer and then getting her to sing like the main dude.

it ain't on w@ffles... Excited by the descriptions except that

Also lol @ them roping in a Portuguese fado Singer and then getting her to sing like the main dude.

is :-/

a lot like Talk Talk and a little like Field Music, too, especially "fragment two"