These New Puritans

Art-rock twin project These New Puritans—praised by Björk, Massive Attack, and Elton John—returns to MeetFactory with their fifth studio album Crooked Wing, featuri​ng Caroline Polachek on lead single Industrial Love Song

Twin brothers Jack and George Barnett laid the foundations for These New Puritans around 2006, with their first studio album Beat Pyramid released two years later. Since its inception, TNP's eclectic sound has been drawing inspiration from a wide range of influences—from Wu-Tang Clan and Steve Reich's minimalism, to post-punk gloom, avantgarde electronica and IDM, all the way to dancehall and neo-classical.

This year, the band follows up their 2019 album Inside the Rose​ with a new studio record titled Crooked Wing, co-produced by Graham Sutton, founder of cult post-rock group Bark Psychosis. The album, out on May 23rd via Domino Recordings, was born with the strike of a bell, and it is the single Bells that distills the ethos of the entire record. “This song started with a field recording we made of a bell in a small Orthodox Greek church. You can hear it in the song, and the rest of the song grew out of it. That one bell strike set a lot of the album in motion.” Rich yet deliberately restricted instrumentation (organs, ancient bells, and tuned percussion), hazy vocals, and immersive soundscapes occupy a liminal sonic space between the brutal and the beautiful.

These New Puritans return to MeetFactory after twelve years on Monday, October 27.
 

"With its melancholy, exultation and occasional blasts of menacing drums, Crooked Wing is instantly recognisable as a These New Puritans record, but the band are now going to places they have never been before in their two-decade avant-pop career." — The Guardian

Tickets:
presale starts on May 2, 10:00
490 CZK via MeetFactory & GoOut
590 CZK at the door

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