Live Review: These New Puritans

Live Review: These New Puritans

When you’re diving for pearls as deep as These New Puritans , it’s good to come up for air every now and again. Fresh from wheeling the big guns of ‘Hidden’ across the continent at the back end of 2010 (an experience frontman Jack...

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Live review: These New Puritans

Live review: These New Puritans

In the foyer, a book containing sheet music is being sold at the merch stand; onstage a formidable taiko drum and five-piece brass band are producing the militaristic sonic assault of ‘We Want War’ . Its prolapse-inducing percussive onslaught...

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Album review: These New Puritans - 'Hidden' (Angular Recording Corporation)

Album review: These New Puritans - 'Hidden'...

It’s pretty obvious really, but noise is the heart of music. Yet, in a world where an addiction to compressed soundfiles has led to musicians smothering their songs in reverb and digital wash, sound is suffering. It’s exciting then to see...

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These New Puritans

These New Puritans

Named after a song by The Fall, friends of The Horrors, soundtrackers of a Hedi Slimane fashion show and with a drummer who featured in the lower reaches of our NME Cool List 2006 (slightly above her out of Fields and slightly below – oh yes –...

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These New Puritans

These New Puritans

Somebody once attempted to convince us that These New Puritans are original. They failed: onstage, the guy looks and twitches just like Ian Curtis, and musically, they sound pretty much exactly the same as The Fall. This is just the kind of...

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