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These New Puritans
What:
These New Puritans / Young and Restless / Bachelor of Arts
Where:
The Prince Bandroom, 29 Fitzroy St, St Kilda
When:
TONIGHT! Thurs Aug 14, doors 8.30pm
How much:
$32 +BF here
Description:
Thanks to Popfrenzy (and us, we're co-presenting!) These New Puritans are touring our land, leaving scattered guitar, dancehall rhythms, and geometric shapes in their wake. Their name might denote 16th century religious discipline, but the reality is more sardonic wit than religious sanctimony.
Event: Bands
Stimulus: sound the horns!
Songs EP
Describing music is, almost inevitably, a frustrating series of inadequate analogies. In the case of Songs, my grey matter latched onto the following: Punk lilt and guitar-driven melodies that recall Is This It-era Strokes. Vocals that channel a stripped-back Velvet Underground; driving rhythms that might have been picked up off the floor after The Wrens finished The Meadlowlands; Constrained, Stooges-like brevity in a four-track EP.
Beat Pyramid, These New Puritans
This record is a jigsaw. A Rubick's cube. As soon as you enter this musical labyrinth you're lost in the shadows. Caught up in a running stream of repeating refrains and echoing hooks as the record circles in on itself like a snake eating its own tail (Dear, infinity symbol).
But really, who wants to keep tabs on the real world when such an escape is on offer.
I Believe In You. Your Magic Is Real
Tigerbeat-6 style desktop pop graduates as 'hip' with YACHT - aka Jona Bechtolt one-time member of Portland sensations, The Blow. His second LP on Marriage Records, the conscientiously titled I Believe In You. Your Magic Is Real is a zeigeisty mix of recent blog-house, post-Fennesz laptop smarts and unadulterated AIH - vocal confidence.
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