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To our British readers, there's nothing particularly new about These New Puritans' Beat Pyramid, which Angular issued in the UK in November. UPDATE: THE ALBUM ISN'T OUT IN THE UK UNTIL FEBRUARY 4. But, as promised, Domino will deliver the band's full-length debut March 18 in North America. The disc, produced by occasional Wire/Liars knob-turner Gareth Jones, falls in line with the knotty, trance-inducing post-punk of the aforementioned mavericks' early works.

But for Puritans fans on either side of the pond, there's plenty of New stuff to go around. Domino will issue a 12" single for the recently-Forkcasted "Navigate, Navigate"-- a fifteen-minute track head Puritan Jack Barnett crafted as the soundtrack to the runway show for Hedi Slimane's Dior Homme Autumn '07 collection-- on February 5. The single will come backed with a remix from DFA co-owner Tim Goldsworthy's the Loving Hand project. UK audiences, meanwhile, will be treated to a single for Beat Pyramid's "Elvis" January 21 February 11 from Angular. That arrives on both 7" and CD.

And Puritanical sorts the world over can cast off their rigid value systems in favor of rock'n'roll, as the Puritans are touring. They'll stick to the UK in large part, but they plan to join the sunburnt sorts at South by Southwest as well.

Beat Pyramid:

01 ...ce I will Say This Twice
02 Numerology (aka Numbers)
03 Colours
04 Swords of Truth
05 Doppelgänger
06 C. 16th ±
07 En Papier
08 Infinity Ytinifini
09 Elvis
10 £4
11 MKK3
12 4
13 Navigate-Colours
14 H.
15 Costume
16 I Will Say This Twi...

"Navigate, Navigate" 12":

A1 Navigate, Navigate
B1 Navigate, Navigate (The Loving Hand Remix)

"Elvis" 7":
A1 Elvis
B1 fff
B2 endingEnding

"Elvis" CD:
01 Elvis
02 fff
03 Hyper Favela (Loops Gold song)
04 "Rock 'n' Roll, Baby" (Sunni Geini vs. These New Puritans)

Touring New Puritans:

01-18 London, England - No Pain in Pop (DJ set)
01-25 London, England - Amersham Arms
01-26 Glasgow, Scotland - The Arches *
01-27 Manchester, England - Academy 2 *
01-28 Oxford, England - Academy *
01-29 Brighton, England - Komedia *
01-31 London, England - KOKO *
02-08 Copenhagen, Denmark - TBA
02-11 London, England - Durr
02-12 Manchester, England - Night & Day
02-13 York, England - Certificate 18
02-15 Nottingham, England - TBA
02-16 London, England - Astoria
02-19 Dublin, Ireland - Crawdaddy
02-23 Middlesbrough, England - The Empire
03-12-16 Austin, TX - SXSW
04-09 Berlin, Germany - TBA

* with British Sea Power