Music

These New Puritans’ first album Beat Pyramid was released in January of 2008 and received a lot of positive reviews. It was Vice’s album of the month and was given a score of 7.5/10 by Pitchfork, even MOR dad rock magazines like Q and Mojo had good things to say about the band. Elements of cLOUDDEAD, The Fall, WU Tang Clan and Ikara Colt combined with a deadpan delivery and nonsensical lyrics such as ‘I am in the rain, I am in the rain. I am in the- sixteen seconds!’.

The band recently anouced that their second album Hidden will be released on the 18th of Janurary 2010:

“Produced by TNPS’s Jack Barnett and Graham Sutton (Bark Psychosis, Boymerang) and mixed by Dave Cooley (J Dilla, MF DOOM) the album draws equally on on the rhythmic lexicons of dancehall and 20th century post-minimalism, with instrumentation redolent of both the oceanic brass of Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes and the plastic textures of modern U.S. pop. It is sometimes brutal, sometimes melancholy, and sounds like nothing else.

Hidden features six-foot Japanese Taiko drums, a thirteen piece brass and woodwind ensemble, sub-heavy beats, prepared piano, a children’s choir, Foley recording techniques (including a melon with cream crackers attached struck by a hammer, used to simulate the sound of a human head being smashed), and the ethereal voice of Heather Marlatt from dream-pop group Salem.”

The first single from the album is called We Want War and is over seven minutes long. The video was created by Daniel Askill and is as epic and hypnotic as the track itself. Check it out below.