BEAT PYRAMID

A friend said to me recently, "Every time I play the lottery, I fucking lose!" The numbers game has always and will be supremely seductive; the paradox of logic and disillusion will keep us going back and scratching off Pick-10's until we're bust. In rock music, numbers occupy a mythical perch -- imagine Led Zeppelin without the roman numerals or Joey Ramone without the 1-2-3-4's. These New Puritans won't be dispensing with the myth anytime soon. Along with their numerology come codes, palindromes, puzzles, and a nice dose of twitch-spit-scratch. Art-pretension in rock has never had it better. These New Puritans spent 2007 touring endlessly in the UK, backing their Now Pluvial EP. Around this time last year, these guys were getting a lot of attention for their sprawling fifteen-minute track "Navigate, Navigate", that served as the musical backdrop for Hedi Slimane's final runway show. FULL REVIEW

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Navigate/Colours THESE NEW PURITANS
Make Out Fall Out Make Up (The Bees Remix) LOVE IS ALL
Synchro CHARLES DE GOAL
To Joy THIEVES LIKE US
N'night NIGHT FACILITIES
Laser Jet VIDEO HIPPOS
Heart It Races SOFT TIGERS
Diamonds In The Dark (Dusty Cabinets Mix) MYSTERY JETS
Love Astronaut MURDER MYSTERY
Route To Palm WHITE WILLIAMS
Let's Make This A Moment To Remember CHROMATICS
magic spells CRYSTAL CASTLES
Pink Batman DAN DEACON
You Can Make Me Feel Bad SHOCKING PINKS
Do The Du A CERTAIN RATIO

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PLAYLIST B+W 11/21

Jennie Richee VIVIANS
Mind Your Own Business DELTA 5
Air War CRYSTAL CASTLES
Neutral KAP BAMBINO
Sweet Chips CLIQUE TALK
En Papier THESE NEW PURITANS
Bully FORTUNE
c.y.o.a. HEARTS REVOLUTION
Marathon ERASE ERRATA
Hey KAP BAMBINO
Deceptacon LE TIGRE
Kids MGMT
Elvisss THESE NEW PURITANS
Navvy NAVVY
What She Wants REWORK
Parking Lot THE COATHANGERS
Count In Fives THE HORRORS
Huggy Bear HEARTS REVOLUTION
Troubles Of Keneat THE VIOLETS
Reach Me Helen Keller ULTRANOIR
Ping Pong X-WIFE
Starlett Johanson THE TEENAGERS
Acrobat CASSETTE KIDS
Common People PULP
Temptation NEW ORDER
The Lovecats THE CURE
Pop The Glock UFFIE
No Love Lost LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
Diamonds In The Dark MYSTERY JETS
That Was Just A Dream CUT COPY
Cannonball THE BREEDERS
Stigmata MINISTRY

MAINLINE

The last time I saw Spiritualized was back in 2002 at the Beacon Theater. It was all laser-guided starbursts, seizure strobe lights and hypno feedback. Not to mention a healthy pillowing of rock-fog throughout; basically full on space madness. It was fantastic fun, and the ex-Spacemen 3 singer Jason Pierce seemed to revel in the psych-lunacy of it all. Well, a lot has happened to Pierce since then, namely that the guy pretty much died (twice!) from pneumonia and tissue damage. He's come back from that white light with more lucidity, re-working and performing music that now fully embraces the gospel nature of his songwriting. For the past year or so, Spiritualized has toured under the "Acoustic Mainlines" tag (a pun off the "Electric Mainline" track), with a healthy dose of ballads and old classics on the set list. At the famed Apollo Theater on 125th street last Friday, Pierce shuffled onto stage accompanied only by his Spiritualized keyboard player, and backing them, a nine-piece string section and choir. The combination of Pierce's storied musical past and his recent brush with death makes for a dramatic premise for sure, and I was curious to see how it would unfold. FULL REVIEW

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