These New Puritans - Crooked WingCrooked Wing is These New Puritans' long awaited fifth albumtheir first in six years. Produced by Jack Barnett and Bark Psychosis pioneer Graham Sutton and executive produced by George Barnett, it features an unpredictable lineup of collaborators, from Caroline Polachek to veteran jazz bassist Chris Laurence. The cult duo returns with one of 2025s boldest and most immersive records, shifting from the brutal to the beautiful. Crooked Wing cements TNPs

The album finds Ayler experimenting with soul music and digging back into his R&B roots (he started his career playing saxophone with Chicago bluesman Little Walter)

to Owens the winding take on the classic tune—recorded a year before work on Inner Song properly kicked off—represents the sort of sonic rebirth that's so essential to Inner Song's aura

Transparent red vinyl

but by a body of work where themes

The album was recorded in both London and Los Angeles under the audacious ear and rock prowess of Green Day's longtime friend & collaborator

this for the first time machine numbered on double LP vinyl

more a wizard than a producer

” recalls Martin

earthy texture

No one can seriously question the head music bona fides of the members of this Colorado-based trio

the album was truly born during small windows of freedom in which the band would decamp to a mud-brick house in the bush around 2hrs north of Melbourne built by the extended Russo family in the 1970s

“Instructions for a Séance” (a spoken-word track from Nick Rhodes)