These New Puritans

don't get you can you like "we want war" and not "drum courts"

ok yeah who's 2011's breakout indie-gone-classy band gonna be, dibs on Two Door Cinema Club

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.

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."

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

monotonous and cold and humorless

A massive selling point! (Well, for me.)

This is a really creative album and I'm happy it's getting some love in the UK

Ned, have you investigated this yet?

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

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)

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.

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...

Oh okay. Wasn't sure how much you were aware that this was a Graham Sutton production.

Believe me, that is a further selling point.

If this album wasn't so relentlessly monochromatic, I would not be nearly as into it.

Fire-Power was the standout to me ofl.

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.

Just missed out on a Pitchfork BNM, didn't turn up in the Mercurys at all. Rough treatment imo.

how can you "just miss out" on a BNM?

High score, but just below the threshold for BNM?

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

It got like an 8.4 in the same week as the Liars got an 8.6 iirc (just remember ilxor mentioning this at the time). Might be why it went under the radar for so long.

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.