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.
― shite new answers (cutty), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 01:22 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 01:24 (fourteen years ago) link
they dress funny
― shite new answers (cutty), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 01:28 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah they have weird haircuts too--i was like are these guys gonna be pretentious but then they were really sweet
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 01:29 (fourteen years ago) link
mother fuck.
just idly checked into these guys' tour schedule, apparently they played mpls a month ago.
― goole, Friday, 12 March 2010 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
yr gonna like it
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
lucky you!
― goole, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
so are they kickass live then?
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
see me, about a month ago, in this thread
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 19:55 (fourteen years ago) link
you really just say that they have weird haircuts and that they play both versions of the same song(?)
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
thats not the same song
― shite new answers (cutty), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
just realised that i have been listening to some remix of the dancing tongues song for months
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
so they're kinda like the chameleons?
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― goole, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 20:07 (fourteen years ago) link
really?
― shite new answers (cutty), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
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*
― goole, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 20:09 (fourteen years ago) link
wait on two dancers ii you can hear them at the same time, kinda dont like the falsetto guy
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 20:09 (fourteen years ago) link
¡omg!
― plax (ico), Saturday, 27 March 2010 11:43 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― AnotherDeadHero, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I've read a lot of things comparing them to The Associates but I've never really heard them express any interest themselves, I know they are massive Junior boys fans.
My friend said I would love them pitching them as a mix of The Associates and Sparks who are two of my five favourite bands ever. I was really disappointed when I checked out a few of their early singles but he then convinced me by putting The Old Dog on a compilation which after a few listens I totally fell in love with. It was a perfect choice as it's one of the slow burners that I kept going back to. I bought the album straight away and I couldn't believe I had ever dismissed them, especially his vocals.
I can't think of any new bands from the last couple of years that I love anywhere near as much. The way they brought out a second album that was so perfect so quickly is just an amazing achievement.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I also think they sound a bit like Climate of Hunter. One thing I didn't expect going to see them was that the guy with the deep voice would be such a boner-inducer, also how overheated and groin-thrusting their basslines were gonna sound. Falsetto guy's voice comes across a million times better live, and the drummer really owns it, amazingly different textures by the drummer all the time, its like third to last song and he start wailin on the cowbells, last one all of a sudden he's playing with malletts. Also the really dreeaammy guitar parts that are like all trancey and synthy and the parts where the film flies off the sprockets for just a second before they're right back on the beat, face forward. Comparing them to XX misses out on how melodramatic, how swoony camp and terrifying they can sound. Good band!
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
his dancing cock down by his knees
― plax (ico), Friday, 11 June 2010 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
A reference to this song:
http://www.jakethackray.com/songs/the-lyrics-and-guitar-tabs/110-the-bull
― Stevie T, Friday, 11 June 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
indeed.
― piscesx, Friday, 11 June 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l44q5qgNog1qbr7sio1_400.gif
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.paddypower.com/bet/novelty-betting/music/mercury-music-prize
Come on boys!
― piscesx, Monday, 6 September 2010 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
They deserve to win it but I just can't see the prize not going to The XX.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 6 September 2010 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
remix EP streamingas expected, gorgeous treatment by Junior Boys
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 9 September 2010 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
'Smother' out in May. So excited
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vf6oNalJ_8
^ Not many clues to be had from the trailer
― ka£ka (NickB), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm looking forward to this, I still love both the albums. I'm hoping they bring some of the pomp back from Limbo Panto.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 12:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Mm yeah me too.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
that just gave me the chills
― cutty, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Such a good band, can't wait for this new one. Two Dancers was probably my most played record of last year.
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
new single 'Albatross's first play, from last night's Radio 1 Zane Lowe show http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00z1rh8 @ 0.29
― piscesx, Friday, 4 March 2011 06:26 (thirteen years ago) link
29 minutes in i mean
― piscesx, Friday, 4 March 2011 06:27 (thirteen years ago) link
The new single is very pretty but I wasn't blown away. I was disappointed with Two Dancers the first few times I heard it so maybe this will grow on me too.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 4 March 2011 10:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Soundcloud link:http://soundcloud.com/1ftp/wild-beasts-albatross
― ka£ka (NickB), Friday, 4 March 2011 10:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Hmmm, not nuts about that tbh.
― ka£ka (NickB), Friday, 4 March 2011 11:06 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDlnbZ2_aSU
― immer wieder, ralf & günther (NickB), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 12:23 (thirteen years ago) link
^ acoustic versions of three songs off Smother btw. Anyone heard the real thing yet?
― immer wieder, ralf & günther (NickB), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 12:24 (thirteen years ago) link
It's streaming here...
http://www.undertheradar.co.nz/utr/more/NID/3404/Album-preview-Wild-Beasts---Smother.utr
― Barnaby, Hardly, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 12:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, would you look at that. Thanks BH
― immer wieder, ralf & günther (NickB), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 12:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I will do the old fashioned thing for this one and wait for the physical thing next week. Surprised by the lack of excitement around here.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 12:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I saw them live last week-- first show as a five-piece, first show with the new material. It was reserved but really lovely.
― THE Alan Moulder?!? (Ówen P.), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 13:42 (thirteen years ago) link