Slicing Through Time

These New Puritans “Three Thousand”

These New Puritans aren’t breaking new ground for apocalyptic grimness in music, but they are quite good at synthesizing very different strains of doom pop into something that sounds rather fresh. “Three Thousand”, for example, is the midpoint between the A Frames’ dead-eyed, deadpan monotone punk and the chilly, broken-machine clunk of Def Jux-style hip hop production. The sound throughout their new album Hidden is consistently shiny and immaculate, which makes its loud martial rhythms sound as though they’ve been freshly minted for destruction. Somehow the rigid order and cleanliness of the music makes it seem much, much more creepy and paranoia-inducing.

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