misterluke

Is that in the NME.com sense of the word, eg. "no article featuring this exact combination of words by this writer has ever appeared before"? That tracklist has been knocking around and written about for weeks.

Where anyone hears Philip Glass in Foals is quite beyond me.

"at worst flicked through the pages of NME and seen the band's name staring back at them"

Thus far I think the NME's entire coverage of These New Puritans extends to a live review about a year ago, George being in the silly cool list, and a ludicrous sentence in the Radar section that compared them to Babyshambles and The Horrors. You can hardly claim they're an NME hype band now, can you?

It stinks of chips, you can't see, and the booze is a rip off. And it's in Hammersmith. Flatten the fucker. Why do people get so attached to these manky old venues?

...I think you'll find there's actually never been a positive review about Larrikin Love on the site.