#These New Puritans to Reissue Hidden for 10th Anniversary

These New Puritans will reissue their second LP, Hidden, on vinyl and digitally on December 4, via Domino. To the original album, the cult Essex band have added a batch of unreleased songs from the sessions, along with live recordings and a concert film. Below, check out a digital-only version of original lead single “We Want War” composed entirely of drums.

Produced by Bark Psychosis’ Graham Sutton and released when the band’s Barnett brothers were 22, Hidden transformed These New Puritans from a post-punk curiosity into outré rock visionaries, introducing modern (and ancient) orchestral music into epic songs filled with bassoons, Japanese taiko drums, and children’s choirs. The record was named NME’s album of 2010. 

Fans who preorder the reissue, titled Hidden [MMXX], will have access to XONE 1, a live-streamed set on release day. Collaborators will include original member Thomas Hein, who left before 2019’s Inside the Rose to become a neuroscientist, as well as pianist Maria Chiara Argirio and composer Henry Dagg. 

Hidden [MMXX]:

Disc 1
01 Time Xone
02 We Want War
03 Three Thousand
04 Hologram
05 Attack Music
06 Fire–Power
07 Orion
08 Canticle
09 Drum Courts–Where Corals Lie
10 White Chords
11 5
 
Disc 2
12  Hologram Pianos
13  We Want War Brass & Woodwind
14  5 Mallets
15  Hologram Chamber Mix
16  Drum Courts Hidden Live Paris
17  Irreversible­­–En Papier Hidden Live Berlin