THESE NEW PURITANS

As their name suggests, These New Puritans are a group on a very precise mission. Hailing from around Southend-On-Sea in the UK and consisting of Jack Barnett, his twin brother George, Thomas Hein and Sophie Sleigh-Johnson. Their latest album, Hidden, pulls together a host of unlikely influences – the later work of Steve Reich, Dancehall, Japanese percussion and the great British composer Benjamin Britten. These New Puritans have constructed an imaginarium whose contents are of less importance than the way in which it has been assembled, the creative and unprecedented use of contrasting sound sources to create a massive burst of percussion with layers of sample sounding classical and chunks of contemporary polished pop pushed through an analog filter.

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"Somber, arty and quintessentially British: that’s Hidden the second album by These New Puritans." - New York Times

“A shockingly brilliant album… Announces These New Puritans as one of the most powerful artistic forces in Britain today – 9/10” – NME

"Hidden is a strikingly inventive and original rock record. Granted, nothing is ever completely new in pop music, but the album freshly synthesizes older ideas (post-rock textures, no-wave skronk, Steve Reich-influenced phasing) and current trends (dubstep's delay, chart pop's stentorian synth lines, global beats)." - 8.1 Pitchfork