I dunno what that means but it sounds cool
― fields of salmon, Thursday, 6 June 2013 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
Interview in Fact:
http://www.factmag.com/2013/06/14/you-have-to-be-quite-obsessive-these-new-puritans-on-their-dizzying-new-opus-fields-of-reeds/
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Friday, 14 June 2013 12:13 (eleven years ago) link
Also present is one of the lowest singing voices in Britain, nurtured in the lungs of bass singer Adrian Peacock. Barnett had already written the music before realising that making it a reality would be slightly more complicated.“I knew [the part] was very, very low. At first we tried to contact Russian Orthdox singers – they have all this music for the basso profondo range, which is even lower than bass singers, it’s really, really low. We tried to contact them but we couldn’t really get through to them, we just got answerphone messages with chanting on.“So I don’t know how we came across him, but he’s this great character, Adrian Peacock. He’s one of the three basses [in the country], this is what I’ve heard, who can hit this note. If you listen to the song ‘Nothing Else’, it starts off with him, and that’s basically his lowest note.”
“I knew [the part] was very, very low. At first we tried to contact Russian Orthdox singers – they have all this music for the basso profondo range, which is even lower than bass singers, it’s really, really low. We tried to contact them but we couldn’t really get through to them, we just got answerphone messages with chanting on.
“So I don’t know how we came across him, but he’s this great character, Adrian Peacock. He’s one of the three basses [in the country], this is what I’ve heard, who can hit this note. If you listen to the song ‘Nothing Else’, it starts off with him, and that’s basically his lowest note.”
Just listened again and bloody hell, that is a low note.
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Friday, 14 June 2013 12:15 (eleven years ago) link
Okay the bit about the answerphone messages.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 June 2013 12:45 (eleven years ago) link
Good grief @ that being a regular human voice and not, like, I dunno, some weird woodwind instrument or something. Which is what I thought it was.
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 14 June 2013 13:43 (eleven years ago) link
They were fantastic in London last night, they managed to make this huge expansive sound with maybe six musicians onstage, and everything sounded as full as it does on the record, possibly fuller.
The best songs were probably from Hidden though - We Want War was predictably astonishing and their drummer is terrific.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 20 June 2013 08:53 (eleven years ago) link
Jealous.
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 20 June 2013 09:42 (eleven years ago) link
I was looking out for you last night Nick. They were smashing. Too loud for my poor ears though. I wish I'd taken ear protection.
― Doran, Thursday, 20 June 2013 09:57 (eleven years ago) link
Sadly I am skint and many miles away. Missing Melt Yourself Down in Bristol tomorrow too. Sadface.
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 20 June 2013 10:37 (eleven years ago) link
I'm interviewing Simon Reynolds in a record shop in Bristol next Thursday if you're around and you fancy it. And I presume that will be free.
― Doran, Thursday, 20 June 2013 11:08 (eleven years ago) link
is petridis supporting
― ghosts of cuddlestein butthurt circlejerk zinged fuckboy (imago), Thursday, 20 June 2013 11:37 (eleven years ago) link
He's out of my league (in more than one sense). I'll be lucky if I can persuade a CD player to spin Acid Trax for me in the warm up slot.
― Doran, Thursday, 20 June 2013 11:50 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I saw that was happening; tempting.
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 20 June 2013 12:12 (eleven years ago) link
Any word on a US release date?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 20 June 2013 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
wow this album is pretty striking
it doesn't SOUND like Talk Talk Spirit of Eden, but it kinda makes me feel the same way that I did when I heard that album
― personal yeezus (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 22:16 (ten years ago) link
ooops now i've read the thread and see that talk talk came up many times
but yeah i don't have a real good handle on how to discuss this album cuz my modern classical/chamber knowledge is mud puddle deep but yeah wow this is a fucking amazing record
― personal yeezus (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 22:33 (ten years ago) link
it is isn't it
although v (island song) and nothing else are for me the two very clear standouts
― rockety communism (imago), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 22:37 (ten years ago) link
ok i'm hearing that guy's bass voice discussed upthread (last song right?)...that is a low note!
― personal yeezus (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 22:46 (ten years ago) link
nah, 3rd-to-last song I think, very beginning
― rockety communism (imago), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 22:48 (ten years ago) link
his voice just sounds like some vague electronic rumbling tbh, but it's the very first sound on that song
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 22:49 (ten years ago) link
the C#/D-flat at the beginning? Yeah, that's pretty low, although I can fake that note depending on how I'm feeling (I can hit it right now, actually)
― DJP, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 22:50 (ten years ago) link
I can replicate it with a throaty growl but it basically sounds like I'm drawing up phlegm. Not very impressive at all.
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 23:00 (ten years ago) link
His voice was collosal - he could holler with the best of them. Did he influence James Brown or vice - versa?
― Hinklepicker, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 03:07 (ten years ago) link
Oops meant for Bobby Bland. I'll try that again.
― Hinklepicker, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 06:48 (ten years ago) link
Lol
― personal yeezus (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 11:19 (ten years ago) link
this is cool as shit
i liked the last one ok but i like this a lot more
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
still sounds to me like what field music was making in miniature on measure ("precious plans")
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 30 June 2013 00:06 (ten years ago) link
it's not quite that, I think. field music way more interested in catchy hooks, deconstructing pop
not that measure isn't every bit as good as this, because it is - may even be better, but it's different
― rockety communism (imago), Sunday, 30 June 2013 00:17 (ten years ago) link
that field music album is more prismatic going for a more variegated effect song by song while these new puritans with this one are more focused i think on elaborating one distinct (mark hollis) aesthetic. maybe my point is i hear echoes of spirit of eden in recent music and i'm glad field of reeds runs with those sounds but it's not like omg they're reviving tones no one's heard in ten years
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 30 June 2013 02:41 (ten years ago) link
Er just bumping cos I wanna read this on zing
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
I like this record a lot more than I did a month ago
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 20:24 (ten years ago) link
I only heard it for the first time about 2 days ago and I must have played it about 5 times through already. Great stuff. I'm interested in this current 'trend'/'contintuum' that seems to include this, the Knife album, The Seer, Bish Bosch, certainly Heartland and a few other recent(ish) albums (someone mentioned Ulver upthread) that work as a piece and are 'post-rock' and epic and indulgent and arty and grand but not in a Mogwai sense. It's my favourite kind of album at the moment and I can't get enough.
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 22:24 (ten years ago) link
Maybe Matt Elliott's The Broken Man? You know, the one that features the memorable title, "If Anyone Tells Me 'It's Better To Have Loved And Lost Than To Never Have Loved At All' I Will Stab Them In The Face".
― doug watson, Thursday, 11 July 2013 01:43 (ten years ago) link
that's more impressionist european folk tbf tbf
― reet pish (imago), Thursday, 11 July 2013 09:26 (ten years ago) link
Fair enough. My only other suggestion might be one of the more recent offerings from Kayo Dot.
― doug watson, Thursday, 11 July 2013 10:36 (ten years ago) link
October tour dates:These New Puritans - UK tour11th Oct Manchester, Gorilla (tickets)12th Oct Bristol, Simple Things Festival (tickets)15th Oct London, Electric Brixton (tickets)16th Oct Leeds, Vox (tickets)17th Oct Glasgow, Oran Mor (tickets) 18th Oct Gateshead, Sage (tickets)
― If you tolerate Bis, then Kenickie will be next (ithappens), Thursday, 11 July 2013 10:52 (ten years ago) link
That Simple Things Festival looks alright - King Midas Sound, Moderat, Pantha Du Prince and Jon Hopkins are on the bill too
― Ralph Vogon Williams (NickB), Thursday, 11 July 2013 11:02 (ten years ago) link
They are incredible live fwiw.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 July 2013 11:30 (ten years ago) link
Good to decorate to.
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 11 July 2013 22:12 (ten years ago) link
definitely contender for album of the year
― "If you like the Byrds, try Depeche Mode" (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 July 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
i wanted to like this. i liked "hidden". this is like some murray gold take on "contemporary music". WACK AS FUCK.
― massaman gai, Friday, 12 July 2013 21:42 (ten years ago) link
that's an interesting perspective
― imago, Friday, 12 July 2013 21:43 (ten years ago) link
look rather than call out yr hi-larious avant-snobbery I'm gonna link you my album of the year and wait for you to compare it to the fkn postman pat theme tune
http://jutegyte.bandcamp.com/album/discontinuities
― imago, Friday, 12 July 2013 22:08 (ten years ago) link
'Organ Eternal' cropped up on shuffle play while I was travelling back home yesterday and just blew my mind. It just felt like the perfect track at the perfect time.
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Friday, 12 July 2013 22:15 (ten years ago) link
imago btw thanks for the aoty alert
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 12 July 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link
gonna link that one everywhere tbh, it needs an audience. weirdly the metal thread didn't wanna know
― imago, Friday, 12 July 2013 22:23 (ten years ago) link
that jute gyte sounds sweet. microtonal. passionate. for BM, "groovy". no mimetic glass/ reich /lutoslawski / ligeti, or ersatz gravitas through "classical" instrumentation. rhythm. that a million times over TNP's half arsed george fentonisms
― massaman gai, Friday, 12 July 2013 22:26 (ten years ago) link
well at least something came outta this then
― imago, Friday, 12 July 2013 22:28 (ten years ago) link
i liked hidden!just don't get this "progression" to tired old shit
― massaman gai, Friday, 12 July 2013 22:30 (ten years ago) link
hmm. certainly I don't like FOR to the same extent all the way through but I think the highlights are beautifully written
― imago, Friday, 12 July 2013 22:48 (ten years ago) link