These New Puritans – Crooked Wing

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.

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