February's new ('eccentric') music...

[mrph]

A week or two back, the Observer music magazine did a story on the "smart, literate" bands who being tagged with the "new eccentric" label - and two they really focused on were These New Puritans and Lightspeed Champion. In passing, they mentioned that TNP's Jack Barnett is "as much a fan of Wu-Tang Clang as German noise experimentalists Einstürzende Neubauten"... which certainly caught my attention...

And, well, you know me. I'm a curious soul. So I now have These New Puritans: Beat Pyramid and Lightspeed Champion: Falling off the Lavender Bridge.

Haven't had a chance to listen to 'em properly yet (although the first couple of TNP songs were pretty striking). I suspect I'll post some comments when I do.

Comments

[nemesis-to-go.livejournal.com]

Where Uncle Nemesis leads, the Observer follows...two years later! I was on These New Puritans' case back in 2006.

There will be more on the band in the near future, including a review of the album, which, although you can play spot-the-influence here and there, is really rather splendid.

[mrph.livejournal.com]

Heh. I thought I'd heard of them somewhere. I agree about the album, btw. :)