Founded: 2002
Location: United Kingdom
Wild Beasts were an English indie rock band, formed in 2002 in Kendal. They released their first single, "Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants", on Bad Sneakers Records in November 2006, and subsequently signed to Domino Records. They have released five acclaimed albums, Limbo, Panto in 2008, Two Dancers in 2009, Smother in 2011, Present Tense in 2014 and Boy King in 2016. Two Dancers was nominated for the Mercury Prize.
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"...a delightful, refreshing and addictive sound that'll keep you coming back for more."
"It's like photoshop crashed and you're left with a pockmarked, not-always-beautiful vision of self; a truer reflection in many ways."
Wild Beasts left the crow smiling
"We wanted to make reactionary work, call everything into question," says Hayden Thorpe.
Two emerging stars will do the honours
Let the sideshows begin!
"For something to defy gravity, for it to sound effortless, that’s actually a huge amount of work."
This is the most measured and confident release from Wild Beasts, an absorbing hymn to modern life.