Such is the cynicism endemic to this period in twenty first century history, Crooked Wing‘s premise at first sounds like some hollow AI brain fart; cavernous post rock mixing with imagery straight from some medieval re-enactment? choir boys and songs about flirty industrial plant? It couldn’t even be made up.
As These New Puritans brothers Jack and George Barnett have developed a reputation for living wholly outside the confines of other people’s expectations, a philosophy their fifth album only serves to doubly underline. Inspired by the sound of a remote church bell, on it the siblings again pair up with former Bark Psychosis member Graham Sutton, a presence most obvious on the beautiful post-rock of the title track during which Jack delivers a spine tingling vocal performance that recalls in part the late Mark Hollis.
A mapless journey, Crooked Wing takes the listener from A New Season In Hell’s industrial brutalism to The Old World’s feather light devotional. Former Chairlift singer and pop star in her own right Caroline Polachek guests on Industrial Love Song, and to everyone’s credit even a track about smitten cranes who can never touch beyond their shadows manages a heartarming tenderness. Indescribable, yet somehow totally absorbing, this is proof that the mind can deceive but the ears will always know what’s good for them.
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