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Its surviving founders, the singer Cynthia Sley and the guitarist Pat Place, have regrouped the band — joined by Steve Shelley from Sonic Youth on drums and production — for its first album since 2012, which is due in July.

“Things I Put Together” reclaims Bush Tetras’ muscle, dissonance and die-hard contrarianism: “Still I won’t keep those things I put together,” Sley declares, going on to insist, “No never!”

Watching this, Cynthia Sley, the lead singer of the Bush Tetras, one of the quintessential New York post-punk groups, was dumbfounded.

Related: 'He was like the Messiah': Larry Levan, the DJ who changed dance music forever “No one worked,” Sley continues.

Examples given of new spelling of words Webster wanted to change from their English spellings but didn’t catch on: ake, sley, soop, spunge, tung, tuf, cloke, determin, wimmen.