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  ARC065Long Player  £13.00

Label

Angular Records

These New Puritans

Hidden

British European the 180 gram vinyl edition 500 copies only comes with a free download the release of 'hidden' marks two years since their debut album 'beat pyramid' infiltrated the minds and hearts of people yearning to find a band who would challenge perplex and make perfect sense produced by these new puitans' jack barnett and graham sutton bark psychosis boymerang and mixed by dave cooley j dilla mf doom the album draws equally on on the rhythmic lexicons of dancehall and 20th century postminimalism with instrumentation redolent of both the oceanic brass of benjamin britten's peter grimes and the plastic textures of modern us pop it is sometimes brutal sometimes melancholy and sounds like nothing else 'hidden' features sixfoot japanese taiko drums a thirteen piece brass and woodwind ensemble subheavy 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 dreampop group salem