These New Puritans
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For emerging acts with debut albums in tow, it’s a practical death knell to be compared to The Fall; just ask Pavement (only kidding). Such is the pli...

Whether you're a longtime fan of Joy Division or a booster of Bloc Party, there's much you'll find familiar on the debut LP of These New Puritans. But...

The UK's relentless Xeroxing of its heroes has made it de rigueur to draw easy parallels, so it's tempting to say the post-punk revival has finally pr...

These New Puritans make post-punk music for an audience who has heard everything there is to be said about the import of post-punk music. They play ob...

The debut full-length from this young British band is an adventurous set of propulsive post-punk, combining angular guitars and tense rhythms with sho...

"Clawing at the air?describing nothing." So snap the scrawny, estuarine vocals of These New Puritans' Jack Barnett on "Swords Of Truth". It could, to ...

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It's always a thrill to encounter a debut album with this many ideas, even if they don't all add up. Southend's These New Puritans follow in the comba...

A friend said to me recently, "Every time I play the lottery, I fucking lose!" The numbers game has always and will be supremely seductive; the parado...