These New Puritans
Hidden

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, a...

Absolutely demented in themost beautiful ways You’d do well to forget all you think you know about These New Puritains. If Beat Pyramid did what was...

Much of the second album from this U.K. art-rock quartet comes on like what most of us had hoped the recent Massive Attack record would be: a dark and...

A friend used to say that Miles Davis'"On the Corner" was his battle music, because aggressive percussion and dense sonic blasts came in handy wheneve...

These New Puritans were tossed into the "art rock" genre following their 2008 debut, but that might have been a pre-emptive classification. Hidden, th...

These New Puritans aren’t puritanical at all: This U.K. group revels in overstimulation. Currently opening for countrymen the xx in Europe, TNPS are a...

Even if Hidden didn't work - and it mostly does - it ought to be celebrated for sheer bravery.On this follow-up to 2008's Beat Pyramid,These New Purit...

Dat een experiment met blazers, elektronica en agressieve drums zo zou aanslaan, hadden we nooit durven denken. Gewaagd maar vooral geslaagd door het ...

So over the top you have to laugh in amazement, the audacious second album from this English foursome is an unholy fusion of fractured hip-hop texture...

As much as first albums can capture bands in their purest form, debuts can also find them over-emulating influences, regurgitating what inspired them ...