These New Puritans - Hidden
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Album Review
Album review: These New Puritans - 'Hidden' (Angular Recording Corporation)
Former students of post punk step out of the classroom into a league of their own
It’s pretty obvious really, but noise is the heart of music. Yet, in a world where an addiction to compressed soundfiles has led to musicians smothering their songs in reverb and digital wash, sound is suffering. It’s exciting then to see These New Puritans living up to their name and dragging a fresh clarity of sound into the world. You might want to go and buy some new speakers, because...
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- Time Xone
- We Want War
- Three Thousand
- Hologram
- Attack Music
- Fire-Power
- Orion
- Canticle
- Drum Courts–Where Corals Lie
- White Chords
- 5
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These New Puritans - Hidden: Wikipedia Album Entry
Hidden is the second studio album by British art rock band These New Puritans. Produced by frontman Jack Barnett and former Bark Psychosis leader Graham Sutton, it was released on 18 January 2010 in the United Kingdom by Angular Recording Corporation and in the rest of the world by Domino Records. The label's press release describes the album as featuring:
"Six-foot Japanese Taiko drums, a thirteen piece brass and woodwind en-semble, sub-heavy beats, prepared piano, a children’s choir, Foley recording techniques (including a melon with cream crackers attached struck by a hammer, used to simulate the sound of a human head being smashed), and the ethereal voice of Heather Marlatt from dream-pop group Salem"
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