These New Puritans

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?

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