These New Puritans

ye gads you're free to like it! i'm not saying you do or should have the same value system as me. as for suggesting viable alternatives "further reading" / whatever, the thing has been extensively reviewed with reference to similar music. check it out. spoon -fed much?

ostensibly similar

Hey everyone, it's the guy from the Guardian end-of-year reader comments section!

oh you hurt my feelings. how mean

What stuff from the modern rock/classical crossover canon floats yer boat, masseman? We've had Ulcer and Kayo Dot among others mentioned here - not a fan of theirs either?

Ulver, even

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

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I similarly had someone suck all the life out of Max Richter for me years ago in this way.

That someone was otmfm

more like pees poo pooritans

Interviewed Graham Sutton about recording Field of Reeds (and other stuff, but mainly TNP).

http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/graham-sutton-interview

Awesome interview. You back in the business as well, Scik?

I've written a handful of pieces for The Quietus over the last few years.

Yeah I know. I guess quality, not quantity

That is a great interview, indeed, Nick. He comes across as such a nice guy.

Man, I need to sit down with an engineer for a month and really STUDY

Been listening to this a lot again, it matches this bad weather well. Had it on my headphones when I ran in to work this morning over wet boggy fields. Played it again this evening on a windy run along the seafront where the storm-thrown shingle has covered the paths and buried benches and a swathe of seaweed had started to encroach on city streets. I want to think of it as sort of the estaurine phase of a flow of dank music that goes from the high moors of Richard Skelton, through the wet autumnal hills of Hood and all the way down to the sublittoral kelp beds of Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom.

estuarine even

Looking forward to seeing them at the Barbican in April 'performing one of the albums of the year, Field of Reeds with an expanded ensemble.'

YEah dug this out again too (bought a "proper" copy on vinyl). It's a great album. Sometimes the indulgences are a bit too great and you get the impression he's attempting something that's too clever and ambitious for his own good, but I guess that's better than not trying at all eh? I know what you mean about estuarine, there's something very Graham Swift 'Waterlands' about this. I'll still love the moments on this though - the piano vamp on Fragment Two; the flugelhorn on Nothing Else; the basso profondo; the whole of Organ Eternal.

the point in "V (Island Song)" when all of the meandering musical lines coalesce into that groove is my favorite transition on the album

oh man i must go to that barbican show.

the point in "V (Island Song)" when all of the meandering musical lines coalesce into that groove is my favorite transition on the album

Yeah that's kind of really what this album is about - all these strangely twisting threads that don't seem to lead anywhere and then suddenly bundle together in this cool way.

Hoping everyone gathers around V (Island Song) in the EOY poll

sorry but it wasn't the stand out for me. i might give it another listen on its own and then get voters regret.

Inspired by the revive, put this beaut on again today. It took me a few minutes to realize that it was over in the other room and that I was actually just listening to a helicopter hovering off somewhere in the distance.

OK, let the persuasion campaign commence...V (Island Song) has a (superb) video! My only qualm is that it loses that gorgeous slow transition into the midsection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iSgJggVpNg

uh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iSgJggVpNg

something very king crimson about that lurching chord progression and the purposeful clattering of the cymbals

yeh lots of love for this album for the eoy poll but was nowhere near nominating any tracks - probs organ eternal would be my pick if i had to choose one

that said it would be nice to see tnp in any of the countdowns

I'm nominating the album so I don't really see the point of voting for any of the individual tracks. It's not really an album with major standouts anyway.

Same here. This album has just been creeping up on me all year and will do very well on my list but couldn't really pick out a single song to vote for. Think I'm going to have to go back to the last album now, I listened to it when it came out but it didn't really make any impression on me at all.

IMO the three times they've broken 7 minutes = by far their 3 best songs. Next album they gotta go fucken symphonic-prog hardball

Way back in the mists of time they did a song called Navigate, Navigate which was 12 minutes long and felt like it went on
for about 120 minutes. Soundtrack for the 2007-8 Dior Homme
 Autumn Collection no less, wasn't really much good though iirc.

http://www.arc018.com/release/navigate-navigate

http://www.arc018.com/resources/tnp_new380.jpg

oh

well the LAST three times they've broken 7 minutes, ha

i tried listening to their first album last night and other than "Elvis" (which is kidn of fun in an annoying way), it's pretty much unlistenable.

Strongly disagree, better to think of it as a completely different band that hasn't stopped wearing it's post-punk influences on its sleeve. I love it unreservedly.

^THIS! Their earlier performances/material were so of-the-moment, but they took a more interesting approach than other, more popular bands at the time. The 16min version of "Navigate, Navigate" still gives me chills. Totally listenable.

Ah I'll need to check it out. Granted, they were a LOT more interesting than a lot of other indie rock bands of the time and I have to respect that, but even Hidden I found a bit ugly and difficult to listen to.

In other news that Barbican show, it looks like all the good seats have been taken and the rest cost £20 each so I'm kind of worried about spending money on being stuck behind a pillar or not being able to see.

i liked the first album quite a bit and there's definitely a couple of songs on there that anticipate later stuff.

the only thing about this album is how on one of the tracks ('Dream'?) it sounds like he's singing 'fart it out, fart it out, fart it out, fart it out'. surely deliberate?

maybe an homage to the last scott walker album?

Only ever heard "Fragment Two" but this suggests I need to hear the album:

"Been listening to this a lot again, it matches this bad weather well. Had it on my headphones when I ran in to work this morning over wet boggy fields. Played it again this evening on a windy run along the seafront where the storm-thrown shingle has covered the paths and buried benches and a swathe of seaweed had started to encroach on city streets. I want to think of it as sort of the estaurine phase of a flow of dank music that goes from the high moors of Richard Skelton, through the wet autumnal hills of Hood and all the way down to the sublittoral kelp beds of Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom."

maybe an homage to the last scott walker album?

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Funny you should say that, but there's a track 'Nothing Else' which segues really well with 'Cue' off the Drift. Evidence: http://www.mixcloud.com/doglatin/give-thanks-some-recent-listening-jan-2014/

Made the EOY top 20, barring ridiculousness - good result tbh, even if the album is (imo) patchy in its brilliance

a rekindled love affair with it late in the year meant i voted for it at -gasp- NUMBER ONE

djh i think you would get a lot out of this record btw

Intriguing. What makes you say that?

confluence of boomkat classical and hood/hollis strands. well not at all really, but not too far away from such a concept

makes sense. i had one of those odd moments where i was pondering if known off-web.