Jack and George Barnett don’t remember exactly when they first met Harley Weir, but they do remember what they liked about her work. “I think she has a way of making the familiar strange, and the strange familiar,” says George, the older of the twin brothers that make up These New Puritans, a band whose rise over the past two decades has seen them become one of the UK’s most beloved experimental acts. “And I think she’s the best photographer of our generation.”

While Weir is indeed now one of the most celebrated and in-demand photographers out there—shooting international magazine covers, blue-chip fashion campaigns, and establishing an impressively realized art practice on the side through exhibitions and monographs—back when she first established ties with These New Puritans, in the late 2000s, she was very much an upstart. “I think we were friends on Myspace at first, weren’t we? And then I saw you on the train, George, and introduced myself,” Weir remembers, laughing.

“It was a really formative time in our lives creatively—our work has always been in tandem without us realizing it, and there are a lot of similarities,” George says. “A lot of shared reference points.”

After mulling it over, Weir replies: “Yes, exactly. I think that’s the perfect way of putting it.”

While the three friends have seen their careers soar over the intervening years, they’ve returned to collaborate time and time again—notably on the ravishing visuals for These New Puritans’ career-best 2019 record, Inside the Rose, the album’s eerily romantic sound seamlessly translated into a series of surreal videos featuring Lynchian swirls of red velvet, nude bodies tangled together in pools of water, and glimpses of the two brothers walking through shadowy industrial basements. And as the band gears up to release their fifth record, Crooked Wing, next month, they’ve joined forces again on a series of new videos: first, for the Caroline Polachek-featuring “Industrial Love Song” in February—which was billed as a lover’s duet between two construction cranes—and today, with the Alexander Skarsgård-starring video for “A Season in Hell.”