These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid (Angular)
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By: Sofie Jenkinson
Eyes flicker open, rays of light prize their way into your brain and the skin on your lips rips as you prize them apart. Odds and ends of otherworldly adventures begin to melt away and the battered shell of your former self reaches for the glass of water by your head. Through the vast landscape of your deserted mind it is unclear whether you are dreaming or awake. Beat Pyramid is the soundtrack to this state, as you push cobwebs aside and explore in the cold light of the morning sun.
These New Puritans are a sideways slap in the face in complete contrast to the vast flaking backdrop of the music industry in its current state. Bands like this reinvent the sounds the brain expects to hear, whacking you round the chops with an offbeat a capella line when you least expect it. Music that keeps you on your toes, rips up the rule book and doesn't care what you think. Beat Pyramid offers a spectrum of dark shades dipping into dreamlike states, nightmares and moments of pure clarity at intermittent points.
Each track fires through the record like a short sentence pinning down a story; one that gathers pace and starts to look like more than the sum of its parts. 'Numerology (Aka Numbers)' introduces the stream of consciousness that seems to cut through the record, giving a centre point from which the rest of the sound is able to flow, electronic world and beyond. From the ticking and tocking of the shadowy 'Doppelganger' which sounds more like an offering from some obscure German dance act to 'C.16th' which would be in no way out of place if dropped into a circling pit of dancing girls on a indie dancefloor. 'Elvis' is, unsurprisingly, another standout track on an album of pleasurable uncertainty, but one is slightly more accessible, casually summarizing a strand of ideas in TNP's clutch.
It's running through dreams, it's the soundtrack to the repetitive thud of your brain sorting through the repetitive thud of your life, it's exciting with a beautiful chaos that drops little explosions all over the surface of everything.
Artists in this article: These New Puritans
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