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- Summary: The first full-length studio release in six years from British duo These New Puritans features a guest appearance by Caroline Polachek.
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- Record Label: Domino
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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May 23, 2025Another masterpiece from this most singular of groups, Crooked Wing deserves to soar.
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Record CollectorMay 20, 2025Five albums in, These New Puritans are still finding new ways to startle and surprise. [Jun 2025, p.104]
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UncutMay 20, 2025Contains some of their most objectively beautiful songs. [Jun 2025, p.41]
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MojoMay 20, 2025All in all, it underlines that These New Puritans remains a band apart. [Jul 2025, p.84]
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May 29, 2025It’s austere, minimal, and starkly beautiful, but incorporates some of Hidden’s pounding rhythmic heft on “A Season in Hell” and “Wild Fields.”
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Aug 11, 2025It's not always an easy listen, but These New Puritans have made a career out of challenging themselves and listeners, a worthy pursuit that they continue here.
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May 27, 2025Crooked Wing promises to be a career highlight, then doesn’t quite deliver. Its first half is consistently astonishing, but its final third dips a little too far into the cryptic and lugubrious.