These New Puritans grew to become an in a single day cult phenomenon with their 2010 album Hidden, an album that paired Jack Barnett’s murmured mantras and medieval compositions together with his brother George’s militant beats. Their albums since have taken that premise alongside wildly divergent paths, taking Discuss Discuss and Depeche Mode textures to their logical finish level in Crooked Wing. The culminating album, led by the Caroline Polachek–assisted “Industrial Love Music,” is by turns epic, quiet, beautiful, and ungodly. Or, as George Barnett put it extra merely in press supplies, “Jack on a piano, me smashing the dwelling daylights out of some drums.”
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Dwelling Is The place: Searching Season [Wax Bodega]
Dwelling Is The place broke out making athletic, anthemic hardcore, and have solely limbered up with time. Searching Season, the emo-rock outfit’s third album and the follow-up to 2023’s The Whaler, is looser and shaggier than its predecessors, written in a interval when frontwoman Bea MacDonald “was homesick and Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers’ first document particularly seemed like house.” Concern not: The songs nonetheless discover their moments to thrash, leading to an album that appears like embarking on a freewheeling highway journey whereas your companion waves a machete out the window.
