These New Puritans to Release Live LP Expanded Featuring 35-Piece Band

Back in April, These New Puritans performed a show they called “Expanded” at the Barbican in London, which featured a 35-piece band, including additional brass, strings, and percussion, plus Portuguese singer Elisa Rodrigues and Synergy Vocals. They did their album Field of Reeds in its entirety as well as some additional older and new works. That performance was recorded and is being released next month. 

Expanded (Live at the Barbican) is out October 20 on CD and digitally via Infectious Music. It’s getting a limited edition LP release via The Vinyl Factory. Above, check out the live, expanded version of “We Want War”.

Frontman Jack Barnett discussed the album in a statement, saying Expanded is “as definitive as the studio album for me” and says he prefers some of the live versions of these songs to their studio counterparts. He added, “It’s like putting on a broadway show, lots of people, meetings, plans, schedules. I’m just as interested in that side of it, really.”

These New Puritans will perform an Expanded concert at the Rest is Noise Festival in Amsterdam on September 19.

In a press release, Barnett said that he’s working on new music: “I’ve had to sort of stop myself from working on new music while we were working on Expanded, it’s been quite difficult. But now we’ve finished it and I’ve had a week off so I’ve got bored so we’re starting on new stuff. But first I’ve got to go through all the dictaphone recordings I’ve amassed over the last few months, lots of me mumbling an idea at four in the morning, and sort through them and work some of them up, then we’ll have a clean slate to work from.”

Revisit our interview with These New Puritans here.

Expanded (Live at the Barbican):

01 Intro Tape
02 The Way I Do
03 Fragment Two
04 The Light In Your Name
05 Island Song
06 Spiral
07 Organ Eternal
08 Nothing Else But This
09 Dream
10 Field of Reeds
11 Three Thousand
12 We Want War
13 Spitting Stars 

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