ARC034: These New Puritans - Elvis
Artist: These New Puritans
Release Date: 11th February 2008
Release Type: Single
Formats: 7", CD, download
Tracklisting:
1. Elvis
2 .Fff
3. Hyper Favela (Loops Gold Song)
4. "Rock 'n' Roll Baby" (Sunni Geini vs. TNPS)
If there is a god, then please take me up.
Before you read this you must know something…for every action, there is a reaction, for every ying a yang and in the fuzzy world of pop saturated chart music, These New Puritans are definitely the re-action. These New Puritans inhabit a world of distopian idealism and unbounded musical intelligence both of which are perfectly encapsulated in what 'director' Jack Barnett terms their "pop song", Elvis.
Beginning with pounding, overdriven Bass that ominously leads you into Jack’s forthright estuary vocal before breaking out into George’s relentless hi-hat blistered drums and wired laptop melodics, Elvis isn’t so much a tour-de-force as an explosive war between My Bloody Valentine and Giorgio Moroder.
The flip-side 'fff' illustrates These New Puritans' eclectic side as frenzied layers of drumming combine with samples of trains, Timbaland-esque thuds and fugue chanting.
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Artist: These New Puritans
As their name suggests, These New Puritans are a group on a very precise mission. Hailing from around Southend-On-Sea, and consisting of Barnett, his twin brother George, Thomas Hein and Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, they have established their reputation through a series of high profile live appearances alongside the likes of The Kills and Klaxons. They first came to prominence with their 2008 debut album, Beat Pyramid. Urgent, pared down, eyes on stalks, sharp as a stick, it was hailed by the NME as demonstrating a “span of ideas and singularity of vision that simply shouldn't happen to 20 year olds. They've created their own imperfect world.”