These New Puritans + Lonelady

Friday 16th April 2010

Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh

Over 14s only, under 16s must be accompanied by an adult

The exotic, spare and preposterously deluxe post-prog post-ancient alien rock cosmic chamber pop of These New Puritans, as presented on their deeply delightful second album Hidden, could slip quite easily into a few top ten lists of great 1970 music, which is a good thing, because it also exists as a great soundtrack to some of the madness and exhilaration of living at this point in the 21st century. It will exist on any sensible top ten of 2010 lists. As a sort of salty, quietly insane, whimsical Anglo-psychedelic masterpiece it exists inside the same island mist and mystery as Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Bowie, Evan Parker, Kinks, Syd Barratt, Drake, Peter Green, Shirley Collins, T. Rex - TNP edge more to the sombre, ornamental Tyrannosaurus Rex side of Bolan - Pentangle, Soft Machine, Wyatt... and, if you'll forgive the inflation, propel into a giddying other dimension the very idea of say Van Der Graaf Generator being produced by peak period Dre, which is somewhere between the comic and the breathtaking, or of the skittish early period Britney Spears construct performing Nico's Desertshore, which is somewhere between the radiant and the entirely improbable. - The Guardian



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