The Barnett brothers were born just two minutes apart in the Essex coastal city of Southend at the close of the 1980s. Their father worked as a builder, their mother an art teacher. At around 7 or 8 years old, the twins began playing music, graduating from plastic toy guitars and karaoke microphones to learning Captain Beefheart songs and recording on cheap four tracks in their early teens. One crucial and revealing hobby was slowing down the sonic pyrotechnics of Aphex Twin tracks, all the better to understand their vertiginous peaks and sudden, gurning drops frozen in slow motion.
The cult duo return with one of 2025’s boldest and most immersive records, shifting between the brutal and the beautiful. Crooked Wing cements These New Puritans’ status as visionaries – defying genre, rejecting convention, and delivering their most moving, powerful work yet.