As was with the suitably incandescent Into the Fire before it, the title track to Jack and George Barnett’s forthcoming These New Puritans full-length – Inside the Rose – proves another feverish dream of a thing, forged in the kind of free-form cauldron over which Karl Hyde and Rick Smith once hunched, circa Beaucoup Fish. Similarly reminiscent of Sylvian and Sakamoto – and, more contemporarily, Daniel Lopatin’s crepuscular productions – trademarkedly aeruginous strings intertwine with Asiatic twangs and techno interludes, before a more refined neo-classical climax makes the brothers’ definite audacity unmistakable. And ‘the charm is firm and good’ for sure.

Inside the Rose is available from March 22^nd via Infectious Music, while These New Puritans play The Dome on April 17^th.