These New Puritans will release their new album Crooked Wing on May 23rd via Domino Records. Their first in six years, was Produced by Jack Barnett and Bark Psychosis pioneer Graham Sutton and executive produced by George Barnett, guest include Caroline Polachek and veteran jazz double-bassist Chris Laurence. Ahead of the album’s arrival, Jack and George Barnett are sharing the record with the double A-side single “Bells” / “Industrial Love Song” featuring Caroline Polachek are both of which are available to stream. Premiering today is a music video by renowned artist and photographer Harley Weir and These New Puritans, soundtracked by “Industrial Love Song”; the band and Weir are longtime friends and creative collaborators.

“”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 realize 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.”

Crooked Wing began with the striking of a bell and it is “Bells” that perhaps best conveys the album’s rich yet restricted sonic palette: organs, ancient bells and pitched percussion. The church organ – an “instrument of love and fear” says Jack, which has traditionally conjured both the celestial and the demonic – was all recorded in either Essex or Carinthia, Austria. “Bells,” with its phased rhythm evoking Steve Reich, Jack Barnett’s unaffected Thames Estuary croon, and nonlinear song structure, is some of the most startling and powerful music of the band’s recording career.

Reuniting with Graham Sutton – who produced the band’s seminal albums Hidden and Field Of Reeds – on Crooked Wing the band worked extensively on the record’s detailed textures, but with cinematic breadth and scope. On a These New Puritans album, any one song can contain influences from jazz, electronica, classical, industrial music, hip hop, or surrealist inversions of classic crooned balladry, without any one being overwhelmingly obvious.

Pre-order Crooked Wing HERE