(Domino) CD, LP is you desire it so.

My, my – These New Puritans’ sophomore album sure is an astutely sculpted mish-mash of musical worlds. The opening track “Time Xone” plays like the sparse woodwind score to a cinematic epic, before “We Want War” breaks in with a seemingly appropriated crunk anthem. Thankfully, the lyrical considerations are more akin to PiL than Lil’ Wayne, meaning yes: this is a morose and melancholy record. At alternating times, it’s as much Steve Reich as it is M.I.A. as it is Liars. Frequently deconstructed back to the bellow of the bassoon and the re-occuring sword-out-of-the-sheath sample – this is a seriously sterling palette of vision and sound.

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