• Record Label: Domino
  • Release Date: May 23, 2025
Metascore
83

Universal acclaim - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
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  1. May 23, 2025
    100
    Another masterpiece from this most singular of groups, Crooked Wing deserves to soar.
  2. Aug 11, 2025
    80
    It'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.
  3. May 29, 2025
    80
    It’s austere, minimal, and starkly beautiful, but incorporates some of Hidden’s pounding rhythmic heft on “A Season in Hell” and “Wild Fields.”
  4. May 28, 2025
    80
    An elegant, engrossing return, that marries its creators’ love of both industrial and ecclesiastical aesthetics while remaining accessible and emotionally easy to grasp. Welcome back.
  5. May 22, 2025
    80
    Crooked Wing is another accomplished, thought-provoking instalment from a duo operating from a highly distinctive position.
  6. 80
    While Crooked Wing finds These New Puritans at their most refined and fractured, the album won’t be for everyone. Its refusal to deliver easy pleasures might leave some cold. And for all its inventiveness, there are moments where the almost academic precision threatens to override the emotional core. Yet, it’s exactly what it feels like, a requiem for the mechanical age, a love song to decay, and a stark reminder of the beauty that can be found in the shadow of ruins.
  7. Mojo
    May 20, 2025
    80
    All in all, it underlines that These New Puritans remains a band apart. [Jul 2025, p.84]
  8. Record Collector
    May 20, 2025
    80
    Five albums in, These New Puritans are still finding new ways to startle and surprise. [Jun 2025, p.104]
  9. Uncut
    May 20, 2025
    80
    Contains some of their most objectively beautiful songs. [Jun 2025, p.41]
  10. May 20, 2025
    80
    As much as has been made over the years about their esoteric methods, what they've always managed to do as a band is keep clever-clever at bay. This continues on Crooked Wing. For all their hifalutin techniques, they remain at their sublime best when most heart-on-sleeve.
  11. May 30, 2025
    73
    Ambitious and heartfelt, Crooked Wing might have needed more time – or anger – to fully reveal qualities we manage to briefly glimpse only.
  12. May 27, 2025
    73
    Crooked 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.

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