Marc Riley - 03/02/2010

Tonight's live band are These New Puritans ... be afraid be very afraid. Their new album is dark but Marc absolutely loves it. He's on one of his obsessing trips with this. Hidden features six-foot Japanese Taiko drums, a thirteen piece brass and woodwind ensemble, sub-heavy beats, prepared piano, a children's choir, Foley recording techniques (including a melon with cream crackers attached struck by a hammer, used to simulate the sound of a human head being smashed), and the ethereal voice of Heather Marlatt from dream-pop group Salem. If that doesn't reel you in I don't know what will.