Watch Alexander Skarsgård star in These New Puritans’ intense new video for ‘A Season In Hell’
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These New Puritans have shared a new music video for their song ‘A Season In Hell’, starring Alexander Skarsgård. Check it out below.
The new single arrives in anticipation of the group’s highly anticipated new album ‘Crooked Wing’, which is set for release via Domino on May 23.
Today (April 29), the members – comprising Essex brothers Jack and George Barnett – have dropped the new visual accompaniment for the single, which is directed by their longtime friend Harley Weir and starring the renowned actor Alexander Skarsgård.
Fitting with the cinematic, intense feel of the song, the new music video captures an equally powerful feeling, showing Skarsgård dramatically sprinting in nature with a look of sheer desperation.
“The song features two pipe organs, two sopranos, and 200 drums,” said Jack Barnett of the track. “When I was writing it, images of vast, inhuman machinery kept coming into my head – enormous chains, pulleys, grinding gears, molten iron. Huge machines driving into the centre of the earth. And every now and then, a little human amongst it all, barely visible.
“Then I saw Piranesi’s etchings of ‘imaginary prisons’ from the 1700s, and that’s exactly what had been in my head. If we could resurrect him, maybe we could have persuaded him to do the album artwork.”
Of the music video, George Barnett added: “It was great to bring Alexander Skarsgård and Harley Weir together. They’re both old friends of mine, especially Harley who I’ve known since we were teenagers; we share formative tenets and ideas in our work. She makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar.”
He continued: “Skarsgård is a rare artist who can move from something experimental to a blockbuster and back. Everything he does is believable. He is high risk, threw himself into it, every detail in him is controlled. He’s magnetic in an otherworldly way, and that worked so well with what Harley does.
“A crooked wing is an ear, you have one on each side of your body, and they have a rippled shape. Maybe if you’re lucky they can help you fly.” Check out the music video above.
The new album from These New Puritans will mark their first in six years, and the fifth LP in their discography. According to a new press release, it varies between brutal to beautiful, and “cements TNP’s reputation for visionary music that defies categorisation and convention”.
Already it has been previewed by the singles ‘Bells’ and ‘Industrial Love Song’ – with the latter featuring an appearance from Caroline Polachek. Pre-order the album here.
As well as gearing up for the album release, These New Puritans are also planning on celebrating the new material with some tour dates. These shows will take place across the UK and Europe later this year, and follow on from a sold-out show at London’s EartH on June 12.
The dates kick off in November with stops in Milan, Rome, Prague, Paris, Amsterdam and more, before the UK and Ireland leg of shows commence. These include gigs in Liverpool, Manchester, Dublin and London.
Tickets go on sale at 10am local time this Friday (May 2) and you can find UK tickets here and international tickets here. Check below for a list of shows.
These New Puritans 2025 tour dates
JUNE
12 – London – EartH
AUGUST
29 – Dorset – End Of The Road Festival
OCTOBER
4 – Riga – Skanu Mezs Festival
19 – Luxembourg – Rotondes [NEW]
21 – Milan – Santeria [NEW]
22 – Roma – MONK [NEW]
23 – Bologna – Lokomotiv [NEW]
26 – Bratislava – Majestic Music Club [NEW]
27 – Prague – MeetFactory [NEW]
29 – Paris – Petit Bain [NEW]
30 – Liege – Reflektor [NEW]
31 – Brussels – Botanique [NEW]
NOVEMBER
3 – Amsterdam – Bitterzoet [NEW]
6 – Liverpool – District [NEW]
7 – Manchester – White Hotel [NEW]
10 – Dublin – Workmans Club [NEW]
12 – London – Village Underground [NEW]
16 – Eindhoven – Effenaar [NEW]
The band’s new album is produced by Jack Barnett alongside Bark Psychosis’ Graham Sutton, who also co-produced previous albums ‘Hidden’. That record was named NME’s album of the year in 2010. He also worked on ‘Field Of Reeds’ in 2013, with George Barnett executive producing.
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