We haven’t heard from These New Puritans since earlier than the pandemic, however the UK art-rock duo is lastly again at this time with the announcement of Crooked Wing. It’s their first new album in six years, following 2019’s Inside The Rose. Two singles are out now, and one options Caroline Polachek.
“‘Industrial Love Track’ is a duet between two cranes on a constructing website,” Jack Barnett explains. “Caroline sings the a part of one crane, I sing the opposite; they’ll’t contact (their actions are managed by the operator), however when the solar rises they hope that their shadows will cross. I like how the title George got here up with misdirects expectations — it’s not that form of industrial.”
“It’s exhausting to connect a time interval to this tune,” George Barnett provides. “It’s progressive music made with devices which were round for a whole bunch of years.”
“As we exit the mechanical age, you notice how a lot we have now in widespread with our machines, how human they’re,” Jack continues. “All of a sudden it didn’t really feel so absurd to put in writing a love tune from their perspective.”
As for “Bells,” Jack says, “This tune began with a subject recording we manufactured from a bell in a small Orthodox Greek church. You may hear it within the tune, and the remainder of the tune grew out of it. That one bell strike set a whole lot of the album in movement.”
Crooked Wing is produced by Jack alongside Graham Sutton and government produced by George. Under, hear “Bells” and watch the Harley Weir-directed music video for “Industrial Love Track.”
TRACKLIST:
01 “Ready”
02 “Bells”
03 “A Season In Hell”
04 “Industrial Love Track”
05 “I’m Already Right here”
06 “Wild Fields (I Don’t Need To)”
07 “The Outdated World”
08 “Crooked Wing”
09 “Goodnight”
10 “Return”
Crooked Wing is out 5/23 through Domino. Pre-order it right here.