These New Puritans

yeah it was a trip when it came out but now I only listen to it for certain moments that I like.

Don't get me wrong I like every track individually but it does and up wallowing and drifting a lot esp. during the latter half, and I think it could've done with more art-pop sort of tracks like Fragment 2 to break it up.

That was always my issue with it. Still think it's s great piece of work, I just love their drums n synths n noise bits so much I wish there were more.

Wait... I don't remember Haim winning this?

wrong thread... sorry.

Anyway, when are TNP releasing a new album?

Listening to the Expanded concert at the Barbican. Really good, but so close to the record, it might as well be the same thing.

Anyway, when are TNP releasing a new album?

― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Tuesday, August 2, 2016 11:21 AM (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Gotta be due, right?

have been listening to field of reeds lately, oddly calming music for these shitty times. need to revisit 'hidden' really - will be interesting to hear how that sounds now given the ever deepening fractures in our sense of national identity and the general backwards trend towards some sort of atavistic spite and stupidity.

And yes, it will be fascinating to hear their next move

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

― ufo, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:45 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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