With the reputations of British tourists left in tatters by stag parties, the Foreign Office sent part-time envoys These New Puritans to Prague on a special mission to repair the PR of the nation. In the downtime between meetings with government officials, the resourceful art-rockers retired to a top-secret bunker and laid down the foundations for Hidden, using only the resources to hand. Fortunately for them, that included a children’s choir, a 13-piece brass/woodwind ensemble and six-foot Taiko drums. And fortunately for us, this jaw-dropping album means we’ll be welcomed back to the Czech Republic with open arms. Na zdraví!