These New Puritans

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.

Sadly I am skint and many miles away. Missing Melt Yourself Down in Bristol tomorrow too. Sadface.

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.

is petridis supporting

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.

Yeah, I saw that was happening; tempting.

Any word on a US release date?

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

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

it is isn't it

although v (island song) and nothing else are for me the two very clear standouts

ok i'm hearing that guy's bass voice discussed upthread (last song right?)...that is a low note!

nah, 3rd-to-last song I think, very beginning

his voice just sounds like some vague electronic rumbling tbh, but it's the very first sound on that song

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)

I can replicate it with a throaty growl but it basically sounds like I'm drawing up phlegm. Not very impressive at all.

His voice was collosal - he could holler with the best of them. Did he influence James Brown or vice - versa?

Oops meant for Bobby Bland. I'll try that again.

Lol

this is cool as shit

i liked the last one ok but i like this a lot more

still sounds to me like what field music was making in miniature on measure ("precious plans")

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

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

Er just bumping cos I wanna read this on zing

I like this record a lot more than I did a month ago

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.

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".

that's more impressionist european folk tbf tbf

Fair enough. My only other suggestion might be one of the more recent offerings from Kayo Dot.

October tour dates:
These New Puritans - UK tour
11th 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)

That Simple Things Festival looks alright - King Midas Sound, Moderat, Pantha Du Prince and Jon Hopkins are on the bill too

They are incredible live fwiw.

Good to decorate to.

definitely contender for album of the year

i wanted to like this. i liked "hidden". this is like some murray gold take on "contemporary music". WACK AS FUCK.

that's an interesting perspective

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

'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.

imago btw thanks for the aoty alert

gonna link that one everywhere tbh, it needs an audience. weirdly the metal thread didn't wanna know

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

well at least something came outta this then

i liked hidden!
just don't get this "progression" to tired old shit

hmm. certainly I don't like FOR to the same extent all the way through but I think the highlights are beautifully written

and kinda novel, to my ears at least

i guess beauty is in the eye(ear?) of the beholder n all, but to me it sounds deleteriously derivative, devoid of rhythmic inventiveness, & jeez they shoulda hazed the brass section or got a decent jazz player in. sounds like williams fairey brass band juniors play C20 modernists. "parp". who gave them the budget for this? it sounds embarrassing. don't get sutton's take either. i respect sutton. just rubs me up the wrong way.

The dry-recorded horns and vox seem to my ears to be a conscious choice to make the record sound "not otherworldly". There's a kind of disappointed quality to the production? Which I kind of like-- I mean, I like it especially in contrast to the We Are Really Into Pagan Imagery Both Sonically And Visually m.o. of "Hidden"

I couldn't wait for a US release. I quite like this album, and as a life-long fan of underground rock, it sounds new and interesting to me. But I do give credence to Massaman Gai's perspective, and it sounds like s/he is much more familiar with avante-classical or whatever genre this album fits better with. But in my experience it's always great to find a gateway into different areas of music, even if the initial exposure seems quaint in retrospect.

this is the second time this month i liked something and some modern classical know it all told me i shouldn't like it

is this even going to get a US release? still not sure why we have to play this game in 2013, but i was hoping to be able to purchase a legit copy.

Obviously it would be a better approach to say "glad you like it, now check out such and such for something even better."