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kick.

man, i even miss the MOR band-from-below.

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geographical size.

apostrophes are my bugbear.

Glastonbury is frigging enormous, and hardly comparable to Truck in terms of physical size, budget or the team behind it.

WAEIJOHUFDYGBIVJK NM!

it's not difficult to see that this is because Glastonbury is already well over the £100 mark, and is not multiplying its size/number of artists by three every year. it's pretty much static in size. Truck, on the other hand, has developed massively over the last few years with relation to the number of artists who play, the relative 'fame' (ugh) of those artists, the number of stages and the size of the tents. (although it has reached its capacity as regards it's geographical size, meaning fields and such - i think.) and the prices haven't DOUBLED. exaggeration.

hardly a proportionate analogy.

is by far one of my gems of the year. if i had an open fire and lived on the moors, i'd listen to Pride all the time. as it is, i generally listen to it 2am. <3

FUCK BUTTONS!, t'Trains, T Pearson, Fonda 500, Euros Childs... s'fine by me.

think a little about the other functions of that, erm, body area

about what is traditionally 'done' to Lederhosen to make them authentically 'yours', and my mum said Rufus explained this very thing on television. please, please, no, surely not...

(i wish i'd been at this show)

to this album, but En Gang I Ar Kom Det En Tar is a beaut.

...where's the folk pop?

the other day and have yet to pop it on the player, but am excited. great to see support here - SC has to be my favourite label, along with JagJaguwar, and maybe Planet Mu.

also, i'd never heard any Nikki Sudden before, y'know, and feel like this is almost criminal.

these new puritans.

they make my heart go BOOM

and towers of silence are my favourites, too.

there's a bit in towers of silence that sounds like you're getting chopped to death in the blades of a wind turbine. it's great.

fully

new album = immense.

too much fun.

and lyrically ace. really colourful, really vibrant, really spitty, really snarly, really, really, really ace.

that's the most hilarious picture of quite an extended period of time, by the way.

there was a time when i seemed to see him play at least once a month, every month. i think i shall be buying this out of curiosity and as an ex-die hard fan for nostalgic purposes.

the cover's a little disappointing though...

sizzlingly awesome.

ness

completely right

that "the circuits of this hiss-beaten valving" is probably the way i really wanted to describe bits of Elvisss but failed in doing so. well done.

i like this review, because i think These New Puritans are HOT METAL GRIYYYYNDING IN THE FACE OF MODERNITY BY ATTACKING IT WITH ITS OWN FLAWS and making it sound GLORIOUSLY, metallically, brutally thirsty. or something. 'En Papier' i think is their best so far...the paranoid noises at the beginning that then underly the rest of the song are thrilling.

i don't think they're particularly pretentious ^^^ but then, i haven't seen them live...

i had it on repeat twenty times on friday.

his GROWL is like no other.

and i can't look at bikes too peacefully now...

whether he can sing or not.

IMMENSITY INCARNATE

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this album. from the stuff where Eamon's just shouting,

A PORCUPINE OR PINEAPPLE?!?!

to the beautiful, thoughtful ones ('No Return' is probably one of the most gorgeous, sad, gorgeous, sad songs i've heard in a long time) it's definitely got a wonderful scope. and it sounds handsome and thickly scored and luscious. mmmm

and i want to know how he DOES that with his voice...

i'm not the only person in the world who thinks that about the Bloc Party song,

most people think i'm a soft sappy smush for loving it.

whereas actually, i think it's got a real heavy colossal-lump-building-in-your-throat-ness to it...making you want to grab everyone you didn't tell you loved and tell them. y'know, like you say, at the end of the world.