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These New Puritans have announced that they will release their second album in early 2010.

‘Hidden’ will be released on January 18 next year.

The follow-up to 2007′s ‘Beat Pyramid’ was produced by the Southen-on-Sea band’s Jack Barnett and producer Graham Sutton. According to a statement from the band it features six-foot Japanese Taiko drums, a 13-piece brass and woodwind ensemble and a children’s choir and a vocal from Salem’s Heather Marlatt.

The album will be preceded by the release of a single, ‘We Want War’, on January 11. It will be released on download, seven-inch and ten-inch vinyl formats.

The tracklisting of ‘Hidden’ will be:

‘Time Xone’
‘We Want War’
‘Three Thousand’
‘Hologram’
‘Attack Music’
‘Fire–Power’
‘Orion’
‘Canticle’
‘Drum Courts–Where Corals Lie’
‘White Chords’
’5′

omg!!!! yay the aryans are back!!!!!

From their tumblr or something: “mixing is almost complete for the album. here is a list of personnel:

Graham Sutton, Jack Barnett, Dave Cooley, Ryan Lott, Phill Brown, George Barnett, Michal Vanis, Thomas Hein, Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, Robert Brauner, Robert Heger, Ales Hustoles, Tomas Hustoles, Kamil Dolezal, Tomas Frantis, Pavel Rytina, Hynek Dolezal, Zdenek Vasina, Pavel Jirasek, Jiri Novotny, Vit Korinek, Petr Cihak, Lumir Maryska, New London Children’s Choir, Ronald Corp, Alex Gibson, Katie Emma Black, Jacki Hayter, Katie Pryce, Faith Lead- better, Mark Rudland, Dan Trodden, Hugh Wilkinson, Heather Marlatt, Tom Loffman, Sunni- Geini, Ross Orton, Marcelo Vig, Guglielmo Baldini”

And some tour dates….
6th August – Off Festival — Myslowice —
7th August – Berlin Festival — Berlin —
8th August – Afisha Picnic Festival — Moscow —
13th August – Club Festival — Köln —
14th August – Dockville Festival — Hamburg —

I’ve been getting back into These New Puritans in a major way. I got really upset when they sailed the United States without their drummer, George Barnett, who was busy at Milan fashion week or something whilst they were touring. They are definitely a better band with him behind the drums, however, I cannot forget that 4 of the gigs I saw them play at SXSW are some of my favorite gigs of 2008. Thus I bring you a new photograph of the band (TOGETHER) and not ripped apart by fashion week and an alternative version of a favorite song of mine.

mp3 | These New Puritans – Swords of Truth (Alt. Mix)

About two months ago, #1 NRBW fan/tipster Sung was telling us about how the suit is sooo damaged and how he didn’t know how much longer it would last…. Well, now we know. JB didn’t wear the suit at Leeds fest and nicely, Barnett told NME.COM afterwards that the suit is finished, explaining “It’s absolutely battered and completely unwearable”.

RIP FIERCE ROMAN GLADIATOR VEST

These New Puritans Interview & Live Footage @ the EchoPlex from Anthem Magazine on Vimeo

There goes Jack Barnett again being enigmatic, esoteric, and weird. I swear, sometimes he must just SAY things because no one can NOT listen to two songs in a row by the same artists! That’s just preposterous! Come forward if you have a problem that is similar to Jacks. So anyway, theres some footage from the Echo. Anthem Magazine probably was upset that my gigantic head was in the way during C16th+-…

Black Sessions are these uh, live recorded sessions in France and we all know about my obsessive need to collect every session/demo/live recording…. So here now, I present to you These New Puritans black session! They do all the live favorites (read: every song they have almost) and the best b-side “fff”. So you should download. They are super good live. And it really does come across in the recordings. I swear!

mp3s | These New Puritans – Black Session

Jack Barnett and George Barnett and Thomas Hein and Sophie tour the US and make my dreams come true!!! I got to see them a meager 4 times at SXSW and I am definitely going to see if its possible to see them 6 times in the first 6 months of the year. Anyway, you should go, they are fucking incredible.

06.05.08 – Washington, DC (DC9)
06.06.08 – Philadelphia, PA (Making Time)
06.08.08 – Brooklyn, NY (Music Hall Of Williamsburg)
06.09.08 – Boston, MA (Great Scott)
06.11.08 – Montreal, QB (L’Ambi)
06.12.08 – Toronto, ON (The Reverb – NXNE)
06.13.08 – Columbus, OH (Wexner Center)
06.14.08 – Chicago, IL (Subterranean)
06.16.08 – Seattle, WA (Chop Suey)
06.17.08 – Portland, OR (Doug Fir Lounge)
06.19.08 – San Francisco, CA (Popscene)
06.21.08 – Los Angeles, CA (Echoplex)