 He taught himself musical notation to score the brass and woodwind elements of the album.In a 2010 interview with Jack Barnett, Paul Morley described These New Puritans' new material on "Hidden" as "very 1970, but also quite 1610, 1950, 1979, 1989, 2005 and 2070".When performing live during the Hidden era they were often accompanied by a five-piece brass-woodwind ensemble.