These New Puritans have shared details of their new album ‘Crooked Wing’.
The incoming record is the band’s fifth to date, and their first in six years. Out on May 23rd, sessions was overseen by Jack Barnett and Bark Psychosis pioneer Graham Sutton and executive produced by George Barnett.
These New Puritans will bring the material to life with a show at London venue EartH on June 12th, with George Barnett stating: “This album is both more surreal & somehow more direct than anything we’ve ever done…”
Available to pre-order now, the record is trailed by two songs – the bubbling ambience of ‘Bells’, and the Caroline Polachek-aided beauty of ‘Industrial Love Song’.
Of ‘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.”
“’Industrial Love Song’ is a duet between two cranes on a building site,” explains Jack Barnett. “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.”
“It’s hard to attach a time period to this song,” says George. “It’s progressive music made with instruments that have been around for hundreds of years.”
“As we exit the mechanical age, you realise how much we have in common with our machines, how human they are,” continues Jack. “Suddenly it didn’t feel so absurd to write a love song from their perspective.”
A video for ‘Industrial Love Song’ has gone live, sculpted by renowned artist and photographer Harley Weir and These New Puritans.
Tracklisting:
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
Main Photo Credit: Jeremy Young
Inset Photo Credit: Holly Whitaker
