Somewhere between 2008’s Limbo, Panto and 2009’s Two Dancers, I was introduced to Wild Beasts and, as they say in the movies, it was love at first sight. I was immediately grabbed by the off-kilter complexity of the music, the astonishing falsetto of Hayden Thorpe’s vocals, the earthy deep richness of Tom Fleming’s.   That
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I’ve been a big fan of Wild Beasts for a while, since the second I laid ears on “Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants,” the quirky second single from their 2008 debut Limbo, Panto. The intricate, gorgeous, nigh indescribable layering of sound, Hayden Thorpe’s mind-blowing falsetto, Tom Fleming’s deep, throaty counterpoint to Thorpe… the whole package had
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