Wild Beasts
Hometown: Kendal
Album “Two Dancers” scored 8.4
Fusing together a series of strikingly inspired influences— from the vocal acrobatics of Sparks or the Associates to the firm production and galloping percussion of Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love— UK ar…
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NME Recommended Albums on Wild Beasts
6 months agoWild Beasts - 'Smother' scored 9 / 10 In 1993, journalist Auberon Waugh established the Bad Sex In Fiction Award while editor of London’s distinguished Literary Review. It was intended to draw attention to what he called the “crude, tasteless and often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in contemporary novels, and to discourage it”. Last year’s winner, Rowan Somerville (key line: “like a lepidopterist mounting a tough-skinned insect with too blunt a pin, he screwed himself into her” – ack), on receiving his award for his novel The Shape Of Her, declared: “There is nothing more English than bad sex.”...more at nme.com
Pitchfork Best Albums on Wild Beasts
9 months agoAlbum "Two Dancers" scored 8.4 Fusing together a series of strikingly inspired influences-- from the vocal acrobatics of Sparks or the Associates to the firm production and galloping percussion of Kate Bush's Hounds of Love-- UK ar...
more at pitchfork.commySpoonful on Wild Beasts
about 2 years agoBecause as lead singer Hayden Thorpe shows you it takes talent and some pretty big balls to sing in an enormous falsetto and not sound utterly ridiculous. Wild Beasts grab your hand and force you to dive headfirst into a fantastical indie art-rock voyage, influenced by the operatic and theatrics of glam rockers like Freddy Mercury and Jeff Lynne. more at myspoonful.com
tinymixtapes on Wild Beasts
over 4 years agoFor those not already familiar with Wild Beasts, I bet the typical reaction to the first few seconds of Limbo, Panto, their debut album, consists of little more than a perplexed “huh.” Because, prior to the first measure of “Vigil for a Fuddy Duddy,” one inclined to generalize might take a cue from the band’s brutish moniker and assume Wild Beasts consists of another bevy of greasy goof-offs attempting to capitalize on the current fixation with scuzzy, lo-fi rock in the vein of Times New Viking and Eat Skull. more at tinymixtapes.com