What's Old Is New

Beat Pyramid
These New Puritans
Domino, 2008
2 stars

Hold the phone, it's another bunch of skinny kids, barely out of high-school, making angular dance-punk under an intelligent-sounding name. A quick scan of dictionary.com tells me that a Puritan is "a person who is strict and disapproves of many kinds of enjoyment", and I'd say they're right on the money, because I'm not really enjoying this CD at all. I mean, it's an interesting idea - mixing dance beats, layered vocals and post-punk guitars - but between Bloc Party and Forward Russia it's already been done, and done better. Maybe I'm just getting old though ... "Damn kids and their new-fangled rock-n-roll music", sheesh, I'm starting to sound like my dad.

Artwork: B

Published in mX, Thursday 24 January 2008.