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These New Puritans - Hidden
Released: 18/01/2010
Angular Records
Groups from Southend-on-Sea take a lot of stick for being style-over-substance claptrap – see Ipso Facto and The Horrors. Po-faced post-punks These New Puritans take that theory to task on their second album – a claustrophobic mixture of heavy beats and strange arrangements.For more information visit: http://www.myspace.com/thesenewpuritans Buy: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002ZTIJ0C?ie=UTF8&tag=cultur00-21&linkCode=as2&ca…
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allmusic“They operate on a level that connects emotionally and viscerally...” Hidden is the sound of an ambitious young band as eager to use every tool at its disposal as it is to avoid studiously doing what's been done before...
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Pitchfork“A strikingly inventive and original rock record...” Now that they've shown what they're capable of, we can probably expect TNP to do something totally different, if not genuinely amazing, next time around...
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MusicOMH“This is where TNPS prove they're worth the hype...” This is Muse with a post-punk heart, stamping on the face of prog rock and throwing down the gauntlet to the rest of the decade. Go on, do better than this if you can...
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Drowned In Sound“Their magnum opus...” The album’s strongest attribute is the hybrid of new and old, minimalism and baroque, classical and rock music. It’s blended together so seamlessly the album defies categorisation, except to say that it’s a thoroughly modern affair...
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