UK quartet Wild Beasts’ second release, Two Dancers, has been met pretty much across the board with the shock and delight. The elements of the remarkable composition, haunting falsettos, precise yet solar lead guitar lines, melancholy croons, and catchy subtle driving backbeats, have been seen in countless bands before, when Wild Beasts put it all together, it sounds strikingly new. Many have taken a crack at the combinations urban and etheriel that made Morrisey and The Smiths so compelling, and it is a balance that is hard to come by. These fellas seem to escape the trap of being too easy. On the track “Hooting and Howling”, I got what I was craving from it as a single, but it still left me slightly unerved. In fact, the whole album has an enigmatic quality that is addicting, unsettling, and ultimately satisfying.
Wild Beasts announced they will be touring North America for the first time this winter and they will be making a stop in Chicago, playing Schuba’s on February 18th and also the 19th. Seems a long way away, but if you dig it, I’d try and get tickets in advance because, with an album like Two Dancers sell out shows seems inevitable.
mp3 – Wild Beasts – Hooting and Howling
mp3 – Wild Beasts – We Still Got the Taste Dancin’ On Our Toungues
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