These New Puritans
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| Background information | |
| Origin |
Southend-on-Sea, England, United Kingdom |
| Genres | Post-punk (early), art rock, post-rock, neo-classical music |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Labels |
Infectious Music Angular / Domino (former) |
| Website | Official website |
| Members | Jack Barnett George Barnett Thomas Hein |
| Past members | Sophie Sleigh-Johnson (2006–2012) |
These New Puritans are a music group/band from the Southend-on-Sea area of England, United Kingdom. It consists mainly of Jack Barnett (songwriter, producer, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist), his twin brother George Barnett (drums, metallophone, loops) and Thomas Hein (sampler, keyboards, percussion, bass). Sophie Sleigh-Johnson (keyboards, sampler) was an active member of TNP between 2006 and 2010. They have recorded three albums, Beat Pyramid, released in 2008, Hidden, released in 2010, and Field of Reeds, which was released on 10 June 2013.
In a 2008 interview, Jack Barnett said that hip hop ensemble Wu-Tang Clan, especially member RZA, influenced the first album Beat Pyramid. Other inspirations include the electronic music of Aphex Twin and the cartoon series The Smurfs. At the time, Artrocker described These New Puritans as sounding like "Sheffield and Berlin synths, '90s alt rock Sonic Youth and Yo La Tengo drones, Underworld beats; and all in the most contemporary of contexts". Although unusual for a rock group, the band often incorporates the same section of music into different songs as refrains.
Before their second album Hidden was released, Barnett revealed that he had been writing music for bassoon and stated that the aim was for a final product where "dancehall meets Steve Reich". In a 2010 interview with Paul Morley, Barnett described These New Puritans' new material on Hidden as "very 1970, but also quite 1610, 1950, 1979, 1989, 2005 and 2070". When performing live during the Hidden era they were often accompanied by a five-piece brass-woodwind ensemble. In 2010 they performed a series of full live performances of Hidden (featuring a brass-woodwind ensemble, Taiko drums, children's choir, three vibraphonists and live Foley techniques) entitled Hidden Live, at venues such as the Barbican Centre (featuring the Britten Sinfonia), the Pompidou Centre and Berghain. In a May 2010 interview with C.B.Liddell, Jack Barnett revealed that he was interested in Melanesian music and that he anticipated that the next TNPS album would be "quieter." In 2010 the song 'We Want War' featured on the Assassin's Creed Brotherhood soundtrack. Towards the end of 2012 the band remixed "Mutual Core" by Björk, which featured on the remix album Bastards.
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