Wild Beasts - Limbo Panto

They very much appreciated your Herald review, Grimly!

Oh, hey, nice one! I don't feel I really did them justice in 280w -- I wish I'd talked more about the lyrics, for a start -- but I'm delighted about that.

I'd happily link to it if it seemed to be online, Cutty: our shiny new website seems to be missing, umm, a fortnight's worth of music reviews. Suffice to say it was just under 300 words of "Late to the party here but fuck me, this lot are transcendentally awesome, and you should have gone to see them too".

I'm cross about this lack of reviews online, actually. I'm going to send a cross e-mail. WOO, that'll show 'em.

Thanks for the video link, NickB -- yeah, that's pretty sharp.

type out the review, then.

Cutty actually wants Grimly to call him and read him the review.

280w fuck

http://wildbeastshoxton.dominorecordco.com/

grateful for this as they did not play two dancers (i) when i saw them

well this really is just one hell of a record. and i get to see them play in uh february.

cooler-than-i-am ppl keep saying to me "what, that band that sound like franz ferdinand"

which is confusing the hell out of me tbh, did the first one sound really different to two dancers or are these people not listening with their ears

the first one sounds even less like franz

no, "bulging clairvoyants" or whatever it is called has a bit of franz rock-disco-stomp to it. but that's about it.

easily my fave indie/rock album of the last few years. typical that the crits are all in a lather over the *new* album which seems to be the same kind of cake but with less interesting ingredients.

i don't think it's less interesting. it's less wacky, more subtle, and that's what makes it better.

They're the first band I can remember that have made my album of the year two years in a row.

At first I was disappointed with Two Dancers, I missed the pomp from Limbo Panto but it's one hell of a grower.

tonight!

well that was fuckin' awesome.

and they played both "two dancers" parts so suck it cutty ;)

glad 4 u

why should i suck it?

grateful for this as they did not play two dancers (i) when i saw them

― cutty, Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:38 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark

yes, the live video had a song i didn't get to see live, but wanted to see. why should i suck it?

why the hostility

why

aww, no hostility for you cutts. it was a suggestion that you suck it with love.

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oh pisces u moron.

anyway it's here =
http://drownedinsound.com/news/4139319-watch--wild-beasts-kcrw-session
a 7 song KCRW session live on film. turns out they're bloody brilliant live. also some excellent chatter between songs which has made me love them *even* more.

saw them again when they were in brooklyn last week. they played two dancers i and ii. and they are still fucking brilliant.

love watching them pluck their guitars. so much sound coming out of the four of them live.

glad you saw both two dancers!

i'll have to watch that session. they seemed like really nice guys when i saw them; it was a small but extremely enthusiastic crowd and it seemed like they were genuinely surprised and grateful.

they dress funny

yeah they have weird haircuts too--i was like are these guys gonna be pretentious but then they were really sweet

mother fuck.

just idly checked into these guys' tour schedule, apparently they played mpls a month ago.

getting dragged to these guys tomorrow night so i figured id check out the album (from what id heard it sounded like something id not really be into, but what i heard really was wrong)

yr gonna like it

lucky you!

so are they kickass live then?

see me, about a month ago, in this thread

you really just say that they have weird haircuts and that they play both versions of the same song(?)

thats not the same song

just realised that i have been listening to some remix of the dancing tongues song for months

well that was fuckin' awesome.
well that was fuckin' awesome.
well that was fuckin' awesome.
well that was fuckin' awesome.
well that was fuckin' awesome.

so they're kinda like the chameleons?

anyway i like their sound, its kinda noirish, detailed but not busy, widescreen but not pompous, and shit can dude sing really, or is their two singers (cos that is range otherwise)

imagine the smiths doing a bunch of talking heads pastiches, if morrissey's voice were an octave higher. maybe.

there are two singers but i can't work out which is which!

really?

it's pretty obvious? there is the falsetto guy then the deeper voice

the falsetto sounds like... the falsetto of the deeper voice. i just figured the guy had range. *shrugs*

wait on two dancers ii you can hear them at the same time, kinda dont like the falsetto guy

¡omg!

Sadly they are not like The Chameleons.

I've been enjoying 'Wild Beasts' a lot recently though and I'm surprised there's been so little talk of it on ILM. It's an interesting album that definitely rewards repeated listens. At first I thought a lot of the songs ended quite prematurely without really building into anything but the more I've listened the more I've appreciated the restrained economy at play. The album sounds lush in terms of atmosphere. I know its maybe only a matter of them being contemporaries but I hear a lot of similarities to the sound of the XX LP. They're playing Primavera this summer and after watching some live performances on YouTube I'm keen to check them out. The earlier remarks about the drums being far more prominent live seem to be the case. It's a shame the drums on the album lack a bit of the punch they seem to have live. Still, good stuff I say. Took my ears a while to warm to the vocals though.

Sadly they are not like The Chameleons.

Nope, but they share a certain vibe with The Associates.

ILM's gusto for these guys is well-placed, I picked up their two albums and there's a few songs that grabbed me immediately but others were slow burns but the hooks stayed in my head. Well done!