i've been discussing this album with brad - definitely my favourite of their albums so far, and I'm surprised that some people were cool on it upthread. It feels like it has drawn on all their best previous ideas and presented them in the most pleasing form possible.
― Tim F, Monday, 5 August 2019 00:47 (four years ago) link
"Beyond Black Suns" sounds like TNP covering Severed Heads
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, 5 August 2019 12:51 (four years ago) link
i think it's my favourite they've done but that's mostly due to them moving in sound a little towards things i like more and becoming a little more accessible i guess? not that field of reeds was bad or anything it's just a bit... idk if dense is the right word but it was more of an appreciate at a distance thing rather than being that moving to me while inside the rose is more direct in appeal. i can understand people who loved field of reeds being a little underwhelmed by this one though.
― ufo, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 03:17 (four years ago) link
Field of Reeds is if anything a little bit too diffuse in places, in that the bits that aren't incredible just drift away a little. The new one has a lot more shape to it.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 08:32 (four years ago) link
at a certain point i could see this being my album of the year. every time i put it on it's an almost overwhelming experience of depth and beauty lol
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 14:17 (four years ago) link
i'm not sure what the end of "beyond black suns" reminds me of but my god
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link
depeche mode plays slowdive's pygmalion
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 14:31 (four years ago) link
reminds me of Air 'New Star In The Sky' a little bit
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
Only just hit me the other week the similarity of Where The Trees Are On Fire's chords to the coda of the Beach Boys 'Surf's Up' (also therefore in turn I suppose 'La Ritournelle')
― nashwan, Monday, 23 September 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
I'm currently listening to Field of Reeds on a pair of £50,000 Linn speakers and *fucking hell*.
(Not my speakers, obviously)
― Matt DC, Thursday, 26 December 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
Envious
― doug watson, Thursday, 26 December 2019 22:00 (four years ago) link
NEW MUSIC Listen here:https://t.co/aG0LLIzWqMthank you to RUSHMORE HIGH SCHOOL for their dystopian vocalsTHE MIRAGE is a song we originally wrote when we were 16 , now reformed.more soon – - tnpX pic.twitter.com/bpjTItrQsB— THESE NEW PURITANS (@TNPs) January 29, 2020
― nxd, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 13:57 (four years ago) link
This song is kind of silly but I am still digging it hardcore
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:27 (four years ago) link
very few bands can pull off a non-horrible song with a kids' choir; TNP is thankfully one of them
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Thursday, 30 January 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link
Absolutely loved Inside The Rose
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 6 May 2022 20:44 (one year ago) link