What These New Puritans didn’t do for their third album was head into the studio with a few guitar riffs, and then jam them into rock’n’roll songs. Instead, Jack Barnett had every part fully composed and arranged before even venturing into Studio P4 Funkhaus Nalepastraße, in Berlin.
Not that these were guitar riffs, either – as the press release notes, several songs “make imaginative use of the Magnetic Resonator Piano invented by Professor Andrew McPherson of the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, University of London”. There’s even the sound of a Harris hawk, as Barnett explained to Alexis Petridis in an interview to be published in tomorrow’s Guardian: “She flew backwards and forwards across the studio. Then she got a bit edgy and went for the assistant engineer a couple of times, so we had to stop.”
As you may have gathered, Field of Reeds is a most unconventional album. If you are looking for comparisons, then maybe the sharp left turns taken by Japan and Talk Talk in their latter years offer a clue. But that’s not really helpful. Best just to listen using the player below – and tell us what you make of it.
IN STREAMING SU THE GUARDIAN
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