Line #11 Music/TheseNewPuritans


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3	-> ''"What's your favourite number, what does it mean?"''
4	-->-- "Numbers"
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6	These New Puritans is an English band founded in 2006.
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8	They have released four albums so far, all of them very different. ''Beat Pyramid'' was a PostPunk style album, often compared by critics to Music/{{The Fall\|Band}}, and featured very obtuse and literate lyrics, combined with hip hop and dancehall-derived rhythms. ''Hidden'' was something else entirely - an extremely weird album based largely around electronics and EverythingIsAnInstrument samples, featuring a horn section and Japanese taiko drums on most songs and with influences from world music and neoclassical music. On ''Field of Reeds'', they've drifted further into a neoclassical influence, this time with an emphasis on much slower, understated material. Their latest, ''Inside the Rose'', falls somewhere between the styles of the previous two.
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10	The band consists of twin brothers Jack (vocals, guitar, producer, multi-instrumentalist) and George Barnett (drums, programming), but have previously included Thomas Hein (bass guitar, sampler, keyboards, percussion) and Sophie Sleigh-Johnson (keyboards, sampler) in their ranks, having both left to pursue their own projects.
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12	'''Discography:'''
13	* ''Beat Pyramid'' (2008)
14	* ''Hidden'' (2010)
15	* ''Field of Reeds'' (2013)
16	* ''Inside the Rose'' (2019)
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19	!!'''This band provides examples of the following tropes:'''
20	* CallBack: Rather unusually for a rock band, they often refer to previous songs both lyrically and musically.
21	* EpicRocking: "We Want War" is 7:23.
22	** ''Field of Reeds'' has some of their longest tracks to date- "The Light in Your Name" (6:03) "V (Island Song)" (9:16), "Spiral" (6:03), "Nothing Else" (7:49), and the title track (6:29). Another track that would fall into this category from ''Hidden'' is the track "Drum Courts - Where Corals Lie", which makes it into the category of "Epic rocking", modestly, at 6:14. They also did a track, around the time of ''Beat Pyramid'', called "Navigate, Navigate", which reaches 15:37.
23	* EverythingIsAnInstrument: ''Hidden'' extensively uses various sound effects such as guns cocking, swords being drawn and rattling chains as part of the music, especially in "Attack Music". Notably, "Orion" features the sound of a melon covered in crackers being hit with a mallet to imitate the sound of a human head being crushed.
24	* GenreBusting: ''Hidden'', most definitely. "Dancehall meets Steve Reich" is how Jack Barnett describes it.
25	* KidsRock: "Attack Music" features a children's choir. The same choir also shows up on fellow ''Hidden'' tracks "Orion" and "5".
26	* LoopedLyrics: Most of their songs have one phrase that repeats a lot, particularly "Fire-Power", which consists almost entirely of the phrase "I'm in the fire, fire, fire".
27	* NewSoundAlbum: ''Hidden'', which was a switch from the post-punk style of ''Beat Pyramid'' to strange electronic-orchestral art rock.
28	** ''Field of Reeds'' also counts- it's practically the exact opposite in terms of ''Hidden'' sonically, in spite of the fact that they're using a similar sonic palette.
29	** ''Inside the Rose'' can be considered a blend of the styles of the previous two albums.
30	* NumerologicalMotif: Discussed in "Numbers".
31	* PerishingAltRockVoice: Jack Barnett uses this delivery on ''Hidden'' - quite a difference from his Mark E. Smith-style vocals on ''Beat Pyramid''.
32	** It's taken up to 11 on ''Field of Reeds'', where his voice so quietly sung among the rest of the instrumentation that he's frequently unintelligible.
33	* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "Hologram" off of ''Hidden'' is a quiet piano-driven song which comes after two loud and dark tracks.
34	* WordSaladLyrics: Quite a lot, but "Three Thousand" has some of the best.
35	--> Wear fun death suit, tropical design\
36	--> Blade grammar to the death, everybody run

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