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READ: These New Puritans: 'You Have To Be Meticulous' via NPR Music
WATCH: "The Light In Your Name" (LIVE With the Magnetic Resonator Piano) via Noisey
Deeply moving." 8.4 – Pitchfork (Best New Music)
"Hold a spot on your albums of the decade list" - 9/10, The Fly
"even the musicians' breathing feels integral" - 4*, The Guardian
These New Puritans are a band from Essex, England, comprising of twin brothers Jack and George Barnett, their friend Thomas Hein and the many different collaborators who are drawn into their orbit. Their music is widely lauded as amongst the most original and progressive in the world, having released three unique and critically acclaimed albums that highlight their uncompromising musical vision. The band is anchored by the opposing characters of the Barnett twins: George, extroverted, a violently virtuosic drummer who directs the band's visuals; Jack, obsessively perfectionist, occupying an unusual role somewhere between producer, composer and bandleader. Hein brings equilibrium, multi-instrumentalism, and a certain wryly-amused take on the back and forth between the brothers.
Last date on These New Puritans'"Spitting Stars" tour is tonight at The Roxy in Los Angeles.
2010's Hidden was hailed as "the first masterpiece of the twenty-first century" and named NME's album of the year. It is a modern, expansive record that takes in disparate influences to create something rare in music today, something unique. The band recreated the album live with a series of ĦỊĐĐỂŅ LIVE shows, notably at the Barbican and Paris' Pompidou Centre, featuring the Britten Sinfonia, a children's choir, 10ft taikodrums, multiple vibraphonists and live Foley techniques.
New album Field of Reeds brings you closer to These New Puritans, with its highly dynamic, intense and emotive sound that bypasses any fads or fashions in today's music, with Portuguese singer Elisa Rodrigues joining the band as a guest member. "with this album the biggest change has been that i've tried to move away from abstraction... It's like when I was younger. I'd get home from school and write songs on the guitar about how Ifelt,this album is kind of like that". The album was critically acclaimed across Europe. TNP debuted the album with a series of concerts in Tokyo, Paris, Los Angeles (supporting Bjork at Hollywood Bowl) and London, with a new live septet (drums / bass / live electronics / trumpet / french horn / piano / female vocals).