Album Review: Bastille - Wild World

London electro-pop four-piece Bastille return with their sophomore album, three years after their debut.

The break has allowed the production-heavy elements that dominated Bad Blood time to steep and infuse into a more rounded and ultimately more likeable sound for Wild World. While singer and founder Dan Smith lets those rich, trilling pipes work their magic in An Act Of Kindness, Two Evils and in the gloriously moody Four Walls, the band is sometimes guilty of letting the album's cohesion fall by the wayside, with upbeat but busy tracks like The Currents and Power sounding likeable but jarring in the mix as a whole.