These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid
A coaction with fashion designer Hedi Slimane for Dior Homme in 2007 and purple and gold outfits on stage... from the press it would be wholly too tardily for more or less grumblers to dub These New Puritans The Emperor's Freshly Clothes and retreat to the post-punk milestones to hear how it really should be done.
Merely such a write off would be an opportunity missed: piece the quadruplet 19-year-olds may be the latest post-Christmas exhilaration band, their debut album has some great moments and a real hold of the dynamics of the art manakin.
Singer Jack Barnett, his gemini brother drummer George V, bassist Dylan Thomas Hein and synth and samples colleague Sophie Sleigh-Johnson flux genres here without leaving you worried that the kitchen fall off power nominate an appearance on the next course - their creative activity could appeal as much to the fan of US label Dischord as those wHO stockpile electronica.
And what's most refreshing amidst wholly the shape throwing is that the quartet tin write catchy songs as well if they're in the humour, as single listen to 'Numerology (AKA Numbers)', 'Colours' and 'Navigate - Colours' will attest.
The old age should rise sort to These New Puritans: they make a lot of ideas, they spark off to each one other in style and while their sound is rather grey at the moment, it's never benumb.
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Bartok, Bela
