These New Puritans

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?

― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, January 27, 2014 4:32 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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.

haha no, i think your veil of mystery remains unrent

Phew. Thought I'd been rumbled. Album ordered!

Hmm.

this "live" video has got me so hyped for their US shows: http://pitchfork.com/news/54274-these-new-puritans-share-live-island-song-video-announce-tour/

Oh man, I definitely have to see them when they come to Chicago, it's gonna be mind blowing I 'm sure.

Anyone else go to the Barbican show last night? What did you think?

Sounded amazing -- utterly jealous here.

I went and it was amazing - full choir, string section, brass and wind, just Barnett and the fado singer at the front, they played the album in order and then came back with an encore of new songs (like the last album but better) and Hidden-era stuff. We Want War was astonishing with so many musicians on stage.

They had two bass singers with proper, proper deep voices as well, I've never heard anything like it.

Inexplicably two local ish shows. I've heard ticket sales are sluggish, which I suppose makes sense.

Yes, the basso profundo guys were terrific, the way they were deployed with that omnious rumble they were making kind of reminded me of what? that last Sunn O))) album perhaps? Great show overall - I did wonder how it was going to work out when they lurched into Fragment Two and the bass and drums locked into that groove in a really buoyant and overly enthusiastic way that maybe left the conductor struggling to get the strings & brass up to speed but that was such an exciting moment anyhow. After that I thought everything was really well integrated, and it was great to actually see who was making what sounds. Percussionist was a hard working guy, kind of disappointed that the glass-smashing moment wasn't all that - saw him get his goggles on and go behind a perspex screen to do it, but didn't actually hear anything happen. If I had any real gripes it would be that I became increasingly aware that Barnett does rely on using the same sonic tricks over and over - the purple-green-blue bruise hues in the brass and winds, the flugelhorn coming in somewhat predictably at the most emotive moments - but it's still for me an incredible thing he's achieved. Agree that We Want War was excellent, like Get Ur Freak On meets Benjamin Britten.

Also weird to see Bob Geldof in the audience, not just cos of the timing but more cos I wouldn't have thought it would be his sort of thing. Hope he got something out of it anyway, all things considered.

Very, very jealous.

Band was great last night playing to a ridiculously small crowd. Really struck by how exotic, for lack of a better word, it comes off live. Less Talk Talk, more like a Central Asian Radiohead.

Have we talked at all about how the drummer is literally a male model? Not the day job I expected.

yeah great show on sat. kinda wished i'd seen em the night before too

the field of reeds stuff was just incredible and the earlier stuff that i'm unfamiliar with sounded a bit like an aggro dead can dance or something (and was awesome)

big lols at the dude in the crowd who said "FINALLY they play something good" when they played some non-fields of reeds stuff. apologies in advance if this was an ilx0r

The drummer is also literally the singer's twin; interesting genetic division there.

Fraternal twin. Drummer got the looks ...

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02659/Man_2659898a.jpg

hello people of the world wide web,
we've made a new record,
'E-X-P-A-N-D-E-D Live at the Barbican',
a record of us and 32 other musicians playing massive rearrangements of 'Field of Reeds' & 'HIDDEN' +new music,
its available for pre-order now,
theres a preview below,
enjoy,
gb+TNP--X

http://www.thesenewpuritans.com/expanded/

Oct 20th

Excited.

Finally! Something to look forward to.

You can stream a preview mix of the track snippets, as well as "We Want War" on their Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/these-new-puritans

flippin' eck. it's like all my favourite acts are releasing music in sept/oct this year.

Care to share your list? If the new Death Blues album isn't yet included, it probably should be.

Aphex, Sunn O))) & Scott, now this, although not sure if I'll shell out for a vinyl copy as I already have Field of Reeds on record.

considering ultros' comparison of the new radiohead to field of reeds, well i anticipated that comparison and listened to this again yesterday. it's so good. when are they coming back ffs?

I absolutely loved it when it first came out but hearing it recently I thought it got a bit flabby and samey towards the end with a strong closer. I definitely reckon they have a world-destroying classic in them though, especially as I think every album so far has been a huge leap foward. I hope they've gone to ground because they're working on something.

i guess your opinion of the closing run-in depends on whether you think 'nothing else' is amazing; fortunately i do

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?