Wild Beasts
Limbo, Panto

Things that push toward the boundary of the ridiculous and somehow do not become ridiculous are worth, at the least, a second glance. Wild Beasts' deb...

Wild Beasts' name comes from the 20th century French art movement Les Fauves (also the inspiration for Les Savy Fav), so maybe the French term "belle ...

Kendal, England band Wild Beasts first LP Limbo, Panto is an impressive debut record from a band that wears their influences on their sleeves, but nev...

Given their name, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Wild Beasts are a tough metal band. But they're actually fey British lads, working in theatrical...

For those not already familiar with Wild Beasts, I bet the typical reaction to the first few seconds of Limbo, Panto, their debut album, consists of l...

It’s 7:30 on a Saturday night, and I’m in the kitchen hunched over the groundwork of a stir-fry. Flouncing its way out of the slightly tinny hi-fi sta...

Strutting from preening castrato to bestial growl, singer Hayden Thorpe sets out to explain the modern masculine dilemma on this British quartet's deb...

If you’ve ever heard more than a few seconds of Wild Beasts, the likelihood is that you’ve already arrived at your own, partisan opinion of the Cumbri...

Wild Beasts' debut does not come with a press release, that age old device by which an emergent band sets out its stall to the media and then the reco...

This is the age of the overstatement. After Alex'n'Miles' turtlenecked quests, Wild Beasts are another gang of young, Northern, guitar-wielding lads g...