Wild Beasts - Limbo Panto

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!

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.

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!

his dancing cock down by his knees

A reference to this song:

http://www.jakethackray.com/songs/the-lyrics-and-guitar-tabs/110-the-bull

indeed.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l44q5qgNog1qbr7sio1_400.gif

http://www.paddypower.com/bet/novelty-betting/music/mercury-music-prize

Come on boys!

They deserve to win it but I just can't see the prize not going to The XX.

remix EP streaming
as expected, gorgeous treatment by Junior Boys

'Smother' out in May. So excited

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vf6oNalJ_8

^ Not many clues to be had from the trailer

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.

Mm yeah me too.

that just gave me the chills

Such a good band, can't wait for this new one. Two Dancers was probably my most played record of last year.

new single 'Albatross's first play, from last night's Radio 1 Zane Lowe show
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00z1rh8 @ 0.29

29 minutes in i mean

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.

Soundcloud link:
http://soundcloud.com/1ftp/wild-beasts-albatross

Hmmm, not nuts about that tbh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDlnbZ2_aSU

^ acoustic versions of three songs off Smother btw. Anyone heard the real thing yet?

It's streaming here...

http://www.undertheradar.co.nz/utr/more/NID/3404/Album-preview-Wild-Beasts---Smother.utr

Well, would you look at that. Thanks BH

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.

I saw them live last week-- first show as a five-piece, first show with the new material. It was reserved but really lovely.

they're a five-piece now? what does the new one do?

I've listened to Smother a couple of times. My first impressions are it's a lovely record but not much of a development from Two Dancers. The production is really incredible but a few of the tracks are too similar to songs on the last album, especially the drum patterns on a few songs. As I said earlier on this thread I was hoping they would bring put some of the pomp from Limbo Panto, well it seems like that's just not going to happen now. My favourite Wild Beasts songs are still Brave Bulging, Devils Crayon and Woebegone Wanderers, those songs seem like a different band to the one they have become. I do think this album will grow like the last one did I just have to accept they are a different and perhaps more sensible band now.

constantly surprised that ILM doesn't give much of a hoot about them. can't wait to hear the new album.

and yeah the band that made Woebegone Wanderers and Club Of Fathomless Love; *that's* the Wild Beasts i love.

@thomp mostly she plays a Juno-D?
The drum parts on all the new songs are mechanical, as if they were designed by a drum machine. Fills are fills of omission rather than elaboration. I really liked it, I would listen to Smother online but I don't like "streaming"

Oh, she (the new member) mentioned too she was from another band, but I'll need a moment to remember

and yeah the band that made Woebegone Wanderers and Club Of Fathomless Love; *that's* the Wild Beasts i love.

― piscesx

I'm a big fan of their second single "Assembly" which is maybe their most ridiculous moment and wasn't even on Limbo. My friend met the singer a while back and asked why don't they ever play it live, he said they've actually forgotten how to play a lot of thier earlier songs. I wouldn't be surprised if on their next tour they don't really play anything from the first era. I can't really see how those songs would fit in to the sound they go for now.

listening to the stream

so good!

I'm quietly anticipating this.

'Two Dancers part II' would suit me just fine (loved "Albatross" already)

general all round very positive reviews from the UK at least
http://www.anydecentmusic.com/review/3023/Wild-Beasts-Smother.aspx

Okay just like Two Dancers this has grown on me a lot after a few plays. It's a really beautiful record and they really are one of the best bands out there.

thx own

ppl who are listening to this record, does it have a game-changer on it like two dancers i & ii was in the middle of the last record? or does it just kind of do its thing?

It's subtle, low-key and very much of a specific mood.

I read them describe Two Dancers as a night out and Smother as pillow talk.

In tone it's similar to a record like Yo La Tengo's And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out IMO.