Wild Beasts are back in the groove, more so than ever before. After a short hiatus between 2011’s Smother and 2014’s Present Tense, the band now looks as relevant and pumped up as ever. There’s a significant change in sound,…
Wild Beasts – Get My Bang Wild Beasts are back and sounding sexier than ever before. This lead single from upcoming fifth long player Boy King seems a substantial shift in sound. It starts with a confrontational synth that sounds…
Crisp production and a stunning vocal performance combine to make Wild Beasts’ fourth album Present Tense a treasure of a record. Spanning a spectrum of colour and mood, the songs boast distinctive lyrics and expertly crafted structures. The synth, bass,…
Praise whichever particular lord you believe in (we’ll probably go for some sort of Nick Drake/Joni Mitchell hybrid deity), Wild Beasts are back with a new single, ‘Wanderlust’. It’s a long way from the glorious histrionics of their debut Limbo,…
Fun Adults are at the very beginning of what promises to be a long and interesting journey as a band, but they must already be sick of comparisons with Wild Beasts. Look, there’s another one. It may have been dressed…
Listening to Wild Beasts frontman Hayden Thorpe singing “oh no sir, I must say you’re wrong” on this stunning cover version it’s not hard to convince yourself the lyrics were written specially for him. In fact he has teamed up…
Wild Beasts have announced a special one-off London gig in which they will play their critically acclaimed third album Smother in full. The show will take place on December 7 at the Lexington in Islington and, because of the limited…
Wild Beasts, possibly the most exciting band to emerge from the British music scene over the last decade, have been criticised for being preposterous and overblown, and for taking themselves too seriously. As they open up their coruscating third album…
As an Isle of Wight native, I’ve seen Bestival grow from a small, sparky young thing in 2004 to the vast, fiery dragon it is today. I worried that my favourite festival was about to grow so big that it…
New indie and Americana festival Campfire Trails will take place in London this month with a line-up including The Felice Brothers, Old Crow Medicine Show, Mountain Man and Wild Beasts. The three-day festival, held in the Troxy in East London,…