Blog: play it as it lays

Listening back to These New Puritans' Beat Pyramid ahead of getting their much-praised new one, I've been mainlining this song for days. Snotty but oblique, full of anger struggling to find a name and target. With the words "And if there is a God", and the yelping reach towards that top note,  clarity seems to be coming together, only to vanish, leaving just a recitation of a telephone number without end as the song closes. Violent, empty and brilliant. This is the earlier (?) rougher version which just amps up the nastiness. These New [...]

• These New Puritans - Elvis (rough version)