This 2CD collection of the Sheffield based Post-Punk, Post-Industrial group does a fine job giving an overview from their recorded output starting in 1990 up to 2019, which is actually quite sparse - one live tape, two albums a single and an EP as far as known. Obviously studio recordings where not the main focus of founding brothers Andrew & Tim Brown but performing live with the use of self-made films and also live cinema scoring events where where the real interest of this ensemble lies.
Their last main release, In Mufti on Musica Maxima Magnetica dates back to 1995 and is the only one featuring the current line-up featuring Charlie Collins (former Clock DVA, The Box Percussionist and Saxophonist/Flutist) and Karl Blake (Lemon Kittens, Shockheaded Peters, Sol Invictus, ..) adding Bass and Guitars as full members. Drummer Q. of In The Nursery fame is also involved as guest musician besides various singers as Sally Doherty (Sieben, The Sumacs) or Lol Coxhill on some of the earlier tracks.
Founding member Paul Ackerley of Zahgurim had left in 1993 and the sound turned more freestyle and less grim and desperate which can be traced easily through the chronological structure of this set.
An interesting mixture of experimental post industrial with jazz influences is of course not everyone's favourite style and hard to capture in a few words. But fear not - besides a steady rhythm there is also a wild playfulness coming through especially on the last 10 before unreleased takes recorded from 1997 up to 2019 which makes this even better.
The mastering of Hidden Hands is very decent so you really need to turn the volume up to catch it's details in full.

Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire) contributed expressive liner notes and I'd like to add a short quoute from his essay:
"LHRH are like a snow globe 20th Century subcultural sounds shaking atoms of blues and freeform, tribal rhythms and fractured funk, esoteric electronic and shortwave radio: signals from a distant planet partying as it collapses."

Packed in a lavish but oversized special screen printed cardboard folder in two color versions (numbered and limited) this is a great release for anyone wanting an introduction to the later sound of Sheffield and it's extended musical family.