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THESE NEW PURITANS AND THEIR MASSIVE GONG

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The Vice London office is into a lot of bands we'd charitably describe as "not our thing." One gaping asshole of an exception is These New Puritans. We are so lodged on those guys' jock we even ran a bunch of blurry pictures they took when they toured Russia.

One of our UK writers once called their tunes the musical equivalent of skinniness, which is pretty apt, but we'd add that they've also got that gothy, extra-English-Art-School-y thing that the Cure and the Sound had where if any American (or Canadian) band ever tried to do what they're doing you'd be able to cut the fagbashing with a knife.

Anyhoo, they played at some place called "Bush Hall" a little bit back, and some folks from Vice UK went and filmed it. Here's the first song from their set, "Orion." Let us know if you're into it and we'll put up some more clips over the rest of the week. You can also tell us you think it's stupid corny dumb-kid bullshit; that doesn't bother us in the least. We like it and that's what matters. Our only real beef is that the singer didn't dress up in some deranged Klaus Nomi outfit instead of looking like Bez on laundry day.