Capturing live the glacial sounds and rib-shattering rhythms of their new album ‘Hidden’, might have seemed a daunting prospect for These New Puritans. Having stitched together a series of vaguely militaristic songs in the studio which by turns flay the skin off your bones and then wrap warm brass around everything to soothe the pain they could be forgiven for failing to quite live up to expectation and the praise which the album has had heaped on it since it’s release.
But these fears aren’t justified. With Jack Barnett, rake thin and inherently serious, firmly the focus of tonight’s proceedings – the eye at the centre of this particular storm – These New Puritans rip things up with a maelstrom of angular threat, ‘Attack Music’ and ‘Fire Power’ particularly. Barnett’s brother George drives the rhythms forward seemingly with the focus of an autistic savant, completely oblivious to anything but the beats.
Whether evangelising their messages or intent on drilling the tribal, insistent beats into the crowd These New Puritans have managed to bottle something really special here which more and more people deserve to hear for themselves. Rally the troops and spread the word.
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