These New Puritans

These New Puritans make music that is breathtaking, challenging, brutal and precise. Music that is at once somber and uplifting, new and old and with the power to perplex and enlighten in harmony. Not a bad combo, really. There aren’t too many bands around these days citing both Steve Reich and Britney Spears as influences, but These New Puritans’ sophomore album, Hidden (Angular/Domino, 2010), does just that. Erudite and eager, these four young musicians are sonic hijackers for a permissive generation. (More …)