Take Oboes, Clarinets and Bassoons, a pinch of hip hop, a generous helping of Killing Joke and Bauhaus and season with a healthy disrespect for prevailing trends. Wilful experimentation is something we see too little of these days. These New Puritans have risen to the challenge with gusto, producing an album that is as wonderful 
City smart, moody with a whiff of sulphur, Interpol snatched their influences from the new wave. The music of Joy Division, Bauhaus, Television, The Psychedelic Furs and Magazine was ingested and polished to a diamond hard intensity. Spaces were opened up in the arrangements, the lyrics of Paul Banks drew breath and the results, the [...]
