These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid

2008 debut album from the critically acclaimed British Post-Post Punk outfit. Recorded alongside Gareth Jones (the producer of albums by Einsturzende Neubauten, Depeche Mode, Liars, and Wire), it's songs are an ever-mutating blur of brash chords, subtle details, and taut rhythms, borne of influences as disparate as Sonic Youth and Dubstep, This Heat and Greek pottery, David Lynch and Dr. Feelgood, J Dilla and the 16th century occultist John Dee. This is a band of extremes. The songs on Beat Pyramid have an immediacy that belies their complex themes: 'Numbers' is a modern Pop song about medieval numerology; 'Infinitytinifni' a celebration of the melting of the polar ice-caps set to one chord and three drums; 'Swords of Truth' a deft slab of death disco named after the terrorist cell linked with the kidnap of BBC journalist Alan Johnson, that may or may not also have been written in homage to the Wu-Tang Clan. Angular.

1) Ce I Will Say This Twice
2) Numerology (Aka Numbers)
3) Colours
4) Swords of Truth
5) Doppelganger
6) C 16th
7) En Papier
8) Infintiy Ytinifni
9) Elvis
10) 4 Pound
11) MKK3
12) 4
13) Navigate Colours
14) H
15) Costume
16) I Will Say This Twice