Beat Pyramid

Domino's latest signing, These New Puritans, are a band of four 19 year-olds from Southend, UK. They have accomplished a lot in their brief existence including the release of a debut EP, extensive UK and European touring, and a collaboration with Dior designer Hedi Slimane which resulted in the epic "Navigate, Navigate" 12" single. Beat Pyramid, their full-length debut, is the next phase in These New Puritans' hyperbolic progression. Recorded with Gareth Jones - the producer of albums by Einsturzende Neubauten, Liars, and Wire - its songs are an ever-mutating blur of brash chords, subtle details, and taut rhythms, borne of influences as disparate as early 80's industrial music to numerology, from This Heat to Dubsteb, and from J. Dilla to David Lynch. "This music is weightless," says Jack midway through "Swords Of Truth", perhaps the most striking track on the album. "This music's symbolic." In seven words, he manages to sum up his band better than anyone else could - in typically oblique fashion, of course.