These New Puritans announce new album Crooked Wing, share Caroline Polachek collab “Industrial Love Music”

These New Puritans are again to announce Crooked Wing, the English duo’s first new album in 5 years, out on Could twenty third. They’ve additionally revealed the album’s first two singles: “Bells” and the Caroline Polachek-assisted “Industrial Love Music.”

Written and produced by brothers Jack and George Barnett, with further manufacturing from Bark Psychosis’ Graham Sutton, Crooked Wing is the experimental duo’s first album since 2019’s Contained in the Rose. They make use of area recordings, unconventional devices, and an array of visitor musicians on the album, with George Barnett describing it as “each extra surreal & someway extra direct than something we’ve ever performed.”

“Industrial Love Music,” the primary providing from Crooked Wing, is a shifting duet between Jack Barnett and Caroline Polachek; extra particularly, Jack Barnett describes it as a duet between “two cranes on a constructing website.” “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 sort of industrial.”

“Bells,” alternatively, is a seven-minute composition framed round a ringing bell, that includes twinkling piano and Jack Barnett’s delicate baritone. Devoid of drums or percussion past the titular bell pattern employed from a area recording, the tune is dramatic and reverberant. “This tune began with a area recording we product of a bell in a small Orthodox Greek church,” Jack mentioned of “Bells.” “You may hear it within the tune, and the remainder of the tune grew out of it. That one bell strike set lots of the album in movement.” Stream each new songs under.

Crooked Wing is out Could twenty third by way of Domino.

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