These New Puritans - Elvis
[Angular Records]

Through cryptic interviews, code-like song titles and videos of their experimental recording techniques posted on sites like YouTube (here is the band sampling a barbecue being hit for a drum sound for example), Brightonions These New Puritans have painted a curious image of themselves.

Elvis is the band's "pop song" if they are to be believed, but if this is their idea of accessible easy-listening, you can only wonder what schizophrenic creations they could make if truly left to run wild.

Elvis then; a song that has already been on our stereos before, but in its new form sounds evern more exciting and even more essential. Led primarily by a huge bulging, earth-quaking bassline (seriously, what a bassline), vocalist and team leader Jack Barnett, shouts some indecipherable paranoid nonsense about being watched by experts and struggling to get his words out, that only pushes the mysterious nature of the band even closer to realms of the unknown.

Elvis is precisely why debut album Beat Pyramid will be cropping up in a LOT of end-of-year charts, as These New Puritans crosses more borders than an illegal immigrant; jumping through the angular-art-pop-punk genre, whilst climbing over a Joy Division meets The Fall (an obvious influence, but if the band are to replicate their idols, why shouldn't we mention them) bass-heavy fence and settling on a toyful synth and incredibly attention-grabbing pop chorus.

Watch the video here

7" Track Listing:

A. Elvis
B1. fff
B2. Ending Ending

CD Track Listing:

1. Elvis
2. fff
3. Hyper Favela (Loops Gold Song)
4. Rock ‘n’ Roll, Baby (Sunni Geini vs TNPS)