Artist: These New Puritans Album: Hidden Release Date: January 18 (UK), February 2 (U.S.) Label: Domino Tracklist: 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 Notes: The second album from this genre-busting UK rock act is preceded by the ...

... we've cleared that up, let us return to the main question. Why do Puritans have such a bad reputation? Why would anybody consider them optimists, let alone us? The truth is, they are, despite what our history ... back in England -- not that they were bad in themselves. But most historians have also found most Puritans, in America and elsewhere, didn't fit the stereotype. They dressed in ...

... -bed in a stall. But, Whatever the reason, Mince pies or their arses, The Puritans saw the yuletide celebrations as farces, Staring down on the festivities with sour, dour ... stop Christmas from coming! ...But HOW?" Then they got an idea! An awful idea! THE PURITANS GOT A WONDERFUL, AWFUL IDEA! "We know just what to do!" The Puritans began ...

... occupations (like priest or monk) trumped secular ones (like farming or blacksmithing). The Puritans, however, rejected such a distinction. Holding to “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it ... Lewis calls “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy,” the original Puritans, serious as they were, embraced not only hard work, but the pursuit of joy. Lewis, opposed to this ...

... common for churches to model themselves after the culture in the name of “relevance.” The puritans had a very different view of God in all His majesty, holiness and sovereignty. Reading their works ... with the knowledge of God. I have listed several thing that I think are reasons why we should read the Puritans today, and every one of those reason is directly derived from the Puritans ...

... common for churches to model themselves after the culture in the name of "relevance." The puritans had a very different view of God in all His majesty, holiness and sovereignty. Reading their works ... with the knowledge of God. I have listed several thing that I think are reasons why we should read the Puritans today, and every one of those reason is directly derived from the Puritans view ...

... of family to sit down at a Thanksgiving dinner with hardly a memory that what the Pilgrims and other Puritans were all about was sexual obsession. A set of ideas about human sexual behavior ... punishment easily morphs from philosophy into obsession -- and that's exactly what happened once the Puritans came into control of laws in their colonies in the New World. The background of the ...

Hidden is the second album from These New Puritans, and while it promises to build on their percussive and minimalist 2008 debut, Beat Pyramid, ... hammer hitting a melon--they swear it's in there.   These New Puritans meticulously charted the arty and angular territory of ... on Beat Pyramid were loose and baggy.   These New Puritans' own Jack Barnett produced Hidden with ...

... were they way they were because they were so focused on God.  Reminds me of 2 Tim 2:4. The Puritans were men whose minds derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content ... in Richard Ellsworth Day, The Shadow of the Broad Brim: The Life Story of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Heir of the Puritans, Chicago: The Judson Press, 1934, p. 118.

... ), and the ethereal voice of Heather Marlatt from dream-pop group Salem. These New Puritans is not a band who showed all the depths of their craftsmanship on their debut album. Hidden, a work extraordinary in ... and range – at times brutal, melancholy, expansive, cinematic or orchestral, is evidence that These New Puritans have only just begun to show the ideas they are capable of creating.