Debut offering Limbo, Panto was promising but divisive – Hayden Thorpe’s omnipresent falsetto was manna to some, but ear-splittingly off-putting to others (including your correspondent). But barely a year later, the Cumbrian band came back with one of the year’s nicest surprises in Two Dancers. Bassist Tom Fleming’s rich baritone shared vocal duties, Thorpe mixed it up more himself, and the band offered up a thoroughly satisfying set of songs, chief among them the rolling, swaggering All The King’s Men – one of the singles of the year. Wild Beasts belong in the same British art-rock tradition as The Associates, The Smiths and Orange Juice – literate, lithe and sexually ambiguous, they’re the kind of band that people will hang their hats on for years to come.
Posted on: 27th January 2010
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