These New Puritans: a band like no other

Part high-concept innovators, part wannabe pop moguls, These New Puritans are a band entirely apart from their peers. Dorian Lynskey asks what makes the differenceWhen the German conductor André de Ridder first heard tracks from Hidden, the second album by the Essex band These New Puritans, he sent an excited email to a cellist friend in Berlin. "Listen to this," he wrote. "This is what we're saying needs to be done. The musical future is safe if people can get into something like this."De Rid...

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