▽ 席卷音樂時尚雙領域的四人搖滾新勢力 ▽ 最新專輯獲Artrocker滿分推崇！ NME、Drowned In Sound、Clash、MusicOMH、The Fly、Observer Music Monthly一致9/10贊揚；Mojo、Q、Uncut、The Times爭相★★★★贊揚 當Post-Punk的盡頭最終僅剩型毀崩裂的尸殼，我們仍有These New Puritans的硬骨可以敲打狂放樂章。 英國倫敦Art-Rock/ Post-Punk四人樂隊These New Puritans，由主音吉他Jack Barnett，雙胞胎兄弟鼓手George Barnett ，貝斯手Thomas Hein 和鍵琴手Sophie Sleigh Johnson于2005年取曼撤斯特Post-Punk前浪樂隊The Fall的歌名成軍，自2006年Now Pluvial EP正式出版以來，These New Puritans不論從冷峻口音與樂曲蘊涵的躁動能量，到飽富象征的簡約設計，從來都是英國獨立搖滾界中最具前衛標新風格的樂隊，其后2007年Dior 時裝設計師Hedi Slimane 走秀歌曲Navigate，Navigate以及找來Simian Mobile Disco里的一員James Ford錄制節奏猛烈的歌曲Elvis等，將TNP原本略帶點工業音樂氛圍的特質，多了別具異型的跳舞電氣。 2008年發表的處男專輯Beat Pyramid里，Wu-Tang Clan的嘻哈元素被Jack Barnett融進輯內，除了讓制式英式搖滾延伸出難以推測的抽象魔力，也指引當時英國Post Punk復興運動的多元方向，部份參與幕后制作和相關圈內的音樂人，更興立了年輕廠牌如DiscError和Parlour等，Beat Pyramid毫無疑問地豎起樂隊成功的標竿，同時漣漪出天馬行空的創意音符，影響新世代樂隊如SCUM，The Big Pink，The XX等。 來到2010年全新第二張專輯Hidden，TNP的獨特樂型更趨進化并展現揚棄吉他旋律為軸線的野心，木管巴松管等管弦與黯黑電子重重合拍，日本民俗器樂與現代古典音樂，進階將R&B小節反覆至極微的共冶，輯內電影聲像感濃烈也完整論述樂隊迷離沉郁的美學，而Hidden不但可以優游橫跨各個樂派領域，更能彰顯TNP大膽表現未來視野的音樂宏圖。 by Marisa Brown Hailing from the town of Southend, England, the four-piece These New Puritans play Fall- and PiL-inspired music that also takes on elements of electronica and dance. Comprised of vocalist Jack Barnett (who also plays the guitar and laptop), his twin brother and drummer George, keyboardist Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, and bassist (and man behind the sampler) Thomas Hein, the band formed in 2006, when all the members were still in their teens. Their edgy aesthetic and particular live show (Jack, for example, usually performed wearing a shirt fully buttoned to his neck), soon brought the group attention from the British press, enough that soon-to-be-former Christian Dior designer Hedi Slimane asked Barnett to compose something for his fall 2007 collection for Dior Homme, a piece, "Navigate, Navigate," which was then debuted in Paris in February at the fashion show. In October of that same year, These New Puritans issued an EP, Now Pluvial, on Angular Records. Their first U.S. release. "Navigate, Navigate," came out in America in February 2008, a 12" that acted as a primer for their debut full-length, Beat Pyramid, which emerged the following month.