These New Puritans: Hidden | The ones we missed | CD review

(Angular)Making sense of the Essex quartet's second album is like reading the runes on the side of a monolith. The central proposition is interesting enough, as the band's youthful mastermind Jack Barnett pits brass and woodwind against the digital thunder of hip‑hop and dancehall, but that's just the beginning. Hidden is a wintry labyrinth of arresting details: the swords that slice through the centre of We Want War, the children's choir that chants the title of Attack Music, the little poc...

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