These New Puritans Announce New Album, Enlist Caroline Polachek for New Single
These New Puritans have introduced a brand new album, Crooked Wing, the UK art-rock band’s first since 2019’s Contained in the Rose. It’s set for launch on Could 23 by way of Domino. Accompanying the announcement are two new songs, the fantastically swirling ‘Bells’ and ‘Industrial Love Tune’, an otherworldly duet with Caroline Polachek. Take a pay attention beneath.
The duo’s Jack Barnett produced Crooked Wing with Graham Sutton, whereas George Barnett government produced the file. “This album is each extra surreal & in some way extra direct than something we’ve ever completed,” George mirrored in a press launch. “A crooked wing is an ear, you will have one on either side of your physique, they usually have a rippled form. Possibly for those who’re fortunate they might help you fly.”
“‘Industrial Love Tune’ is a duet between two cranes on a constructing website,” Jack Barnett defined. “Caroline sings the a part of one crane, I sing the opposite; they will’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 type of industrial.”
“It’s laborious to connect a time interval to this track,”George Barnett added. “It’s progressive music made with devices which have been round for lots of of years.”
“As we exit the mechanical age, you understand how a lot we have now in widespread with our machines, how human they’re,” Jack continued. “All of a sudden it didn’t really feel so absurd to jot down a love track from their perspective.”
Commenting on ‘Bells’, Jack shared: “This track began with a subject recording we made from a bell in a small Orthodox Greek church. You’ll be able to hear it within the track, and the remainder of the track grew out of it. That one bell strike set a variety of the album in movement.”
Crooked Wing Cowl Art work:
Crooked Wing Tracklist:
1. Ready
2. Bells
3. A Season in Hell
4. Industrial Love Tune [ft. Caroline Polachek]
5. I’m Already Right here
6. Wild Fields (I Don’t Need To)
7. The Previous World
8. Crooked Wing
9. Goodnight
10. Return
