Hidden

Hidden marks the next step for the UK’s These New Puritans since last year’s ‘Beat Pyramid’ (Triple J Album Of The Week) infiltrated the minds and hearts of people yearning to find a band who would challenge, perplex and mesmerise in equal measure. Produced by TNPS's Jack Barnett and Graham Sutton (Bark Psychosis, Boymerang) and mixed by Dave Cooley (J Dilla, MF DOOM) the album draws equally on the rhythmic lexicons of dancehall and 20th century post-minimalism, with instrumentation redolent of the oceanic brass of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes and the plastic textures of modern U.S. pop. It’s sometimes brutal, sometimes melancholy, and sounds like nothing else!! Hidden features six-foot Japanese Taiko drums, a thirteen piece brass and woodwind ensemble, 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.