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Mar 11, 2025 By Mark Redfern Photography by Holly Whittaker

British brother duo These New Puritans have announced a new album, Crooked Wing, and shared its first two singles, “Industrial Love Song” (which features Caroline Polachek) and “Bells.” Crooked Wing is due out May 23 via Domino. Below, check out both singles, followed by the album’s tracklist and cover artwork.

These New Puritans are led by brothers Jack and George Barnett. Jack produced the album with Bark Psychosis’ Graham Sutton and George executive produced Crooked Wing. Sutton produced the band’s Hidden (2010) and Field of Reeds (2013). In 2019 These New Puritans released Inside the Rose, which was followed by the 2020 companion album, The Cut [2016-2019].

“This album is both more surreal and somehow more direct than anything we’ve ever done,” says George in a press release. “A crooked wing is an ear, you have one on each side of your body, and they have a rippled shape. Maybe if you’re lucky they can help you fly,” he adds, regarding the album title.

Of “Industrial Love Song,” Jacks says: “‘Industrial Love Song’ is a duet between two cranes on a building site. Caroline sings the part of one crane, I sing the other; they can’t touch (their movements are controlled by the operator), but when the sun rises they hope that their shadows will cross. I like how the title George came up with misdirects expectations - it’s not that kind of industrial.”

Jack adds: “As we exit the mechanical age, you realize how much we have in common with our machines, how human they are. Suddenly it didn’t feel so absurd to write a love song from their perspective.”

George says of the song: “It’s hard to attach a time period to this song. It’s progressive music made with instruments that have been around for hundreds of years.”

Artist/photographer Harley Weir directed the video for “Industrial Love Song.”

As for the other new single, “Bells,” Jack says: “This song started with a field recording we made of a bell in a small Orthodox Greek church. You can hear it in the song, and the rest of the song grew out of it. That one bell strike set a lot of the album in motion.”

In 2023, Caroline Polachek released her acclaimed album, Desire, I Want to Turn Into You.

Crooked Wing Tracklist:

1. Waiting
2. Bells
3. A Season In Hell
4. Industrial Love Song
5. I’m Already Here
6. Wild Fields (I Don’t Want To)
7. The Old World
8. Crooked Wing
9. Goodnight
10. Return

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