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May 20, 2025 By Mark Redfern Photography by Hedi Slimane

British brother duo These New Puritans are releasing a new album, Crooked Wing, this Friday via Domino. Now they have shared the album’s final pre-release single, “Wild Fields,” via a music video. Harley Weir directed the video. Watch it below.

These New Puritans are led by brothers Jack and George Barnett.

“‘Wild Fields’ is a bit of an outlier on the album, in that it’s quite a traditional song,” says Jack in a press release. “It ends with the words ‘come down from crystal heavens above,’ which is a quotation from William Byrd’s lament for Thomas Tallis. When I googled it to check the reference, it just showed me endless advice about crystal meth withdrawal. Those are the only ads I see now. So this song has a lot to answer for.”

Previously the band shared the album’s first two singles, “Industrial Love Song” (which features Caroline Polachek) and “Bells.” “Industrial Love Song” was one of our Songs of the Week. Then they shared “A Season in Hell,” with a video featuring actor Alexander Skarsgård. “A Season in Hell” was also one of our Songs of the Week.

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.

“The album was recorded on industrial estates, in churches, studios, circus wagons and cheap hotel rooms,” says Jack. “I’m sure each one left their mark somehow. It starts with a boy soprano singing from underground. Someone said to me it’s like he’s rising up and taking you on a guided tour of all of this filth and heaven, life and death, humans and machines, moments of intensity and moments of stillness. All these contradictions. Then he returns back where he came from in the last track, back under the earth, back to silence. I didn’t mean it to be that, but I like that idea.”

“It’s a DIY album that doesn’t sound like a DIY album,” adds George. “It’s a pair of enthusiastic amateurs doing what they want, oblivious to the world. Jack on a piano, me smashing the living daylights out of some drums. More than anything it is pure and it’s direct.”

These New Puritans 2025 Tour Dates:

June 12 - London - EartH - SOLD OUT
August 29 - Dorset - End Of The Road Festival
October 5 - Riga - Skanu Mezs Festival
October 19 - Luxembourg - Rotondes
October 21 - Milan - Santeria
October 22 - Roma - MONK
October 23 - Bologna - Lokomotiv
October 26 - Bratislava - Majestic Music Club
October 27 - Prague - MeetFactory
October 29 - Paris - Petit Bain
October 30 - Liege - Reflektor
October 31 - Brussels - Botanique
November 3 - Amsterdam - Paradiso
November 7 - Manchester - White Hotel
November 10 - Dublin - Workmans Club
November 12 - London - Village Underground
November 16 - Eindhoven – Effenaar
November 19 - Hamburg - Kampagnel
November 20 - Berlin - Lido

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