First Single

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwHoh2vNdiA]YouTube - Wild Beasts - 'Hooting & Howling'[/ame]

 

Two Dancers is the second Wild Beasts album. Co-produced by the band and northern enigma Richard Formby in remote Norfolk earlier this year, it follows 2008’s widely celebrated debut Limbo, Panto. The result is a record of tightrope-high drama, put simply, Two Dancers finds the Wild Beasts on fire. Two Dancers is alive with its sense of possibility, a sound that shimmers and sways in the band’s own mercurial fashion. Sit back and listen with wonder at the thrill of it all.

 

Two Dancers inhabits its own landscape, as Tom Fleming says, it’s “a series of scenes… a big party, the street outside later on, or in a bedroom, or desperately hungry and starving to death on a distant beach.” The words ‘bedroom’, ‘desperately’ and ‘party’ perfectly capture the energies at work in Two Dancers. Equal to the euphoria and sense of expectation is a feeling of helplessness. Hedonism can produce a long night of the soul that burns on wired emotions, and on what Fleming calls “meaningless lust”. The album’s lead single Hooting And Howling, from its title down, captures this perfectly. Consisting of a staring match between guitarist Benny Little and lead vocalist Hayden Thorpe, Hooting and Howling is equal parts statement of intent, and relentless eye contact from a priapic state of mind. As with rest of the album, it feels slightly delirious, having turned itself inside out and finding a state of unique musical grace.

 

Two Dancers is full of references to the following: booty calls, puckered lips, bodies as perfect machines, and dim-lit streets. Lyrically Two Dancers is equally energetic and ripe. In All The King’s Men Fleming sings with purposeful intent about “Girls from Rodean, girls from Shipley, from Hounslow, girls from Whitby” as Hayden Thorpe’s falsetto soars with palpable anticipation. In this song, as on the whole of the album, Wild Beasts dare you to cut loose and be seduced, but you’ll join in on the disorientation along the way.

 

The album’s shorter tracks, the two minutes of Underbelly and When I’m Sleepy, allow delicious moments for pause. “We were trying to come up with a way to describe it”, as Fleming puts it “and the nearest we got is erotic downbeat music”. Both are suggestive and abstract, capturing the fine art of feeling weird by shimmering in a twilight cadence. The band’s performances throughout are pure liquid energy. The needlepoint drama is a result of the band eschewing studio hyper gloss by playing together in the room - “recorded live, no over thinking” explains Thorpe. The sound and sensation of a band, to borrow the lyric of This Is Our Lot, ‘dancing late / like young reprobates’.

 

And Two Dancers is indeed a record made by real young men. As Thorpe, owner of one of the most wildly emotive falsettos observes, “It’s such a cliché to be perceived as being different. We’re seen as being outsiders, and that makes us close up the ranks even more.’’ In closing up the ranks Wild Beasts have made a record of earthly pleasures that sounds thrillingly widescreen, open and in awe of life; equally intoxicated and disturbed by the possibilities of pleasure.

 

Two Dancers will be released on 3rd August 2009 and will be available on CD (WIGCD238), LP (WIGLP238) and via digital download (WIG238D). Hooting & Howling will be available from 20th July 2009 on 10” vinyl (RUG329) and via digital download (RUG329D).

 

DYS track by track review:

http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4137270-first-listen--wild-beasts-two-dancers

WILD BEASTS

 

I am just absolutely in love with their new album Two Dancers.

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwHoh2vNdiA]YouTube - Wild Beasts - 'Hooting & Howling'[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sxh5zMbNAo]YouTube - Wild Beasts - All The King's Men[/ame]

Your sig.

 

Just... your sig.

 

:D

 

Amazing album. They're on Jools Holland on Tuesday!!

Which part of my sig? Ticker or text?

 

I know, I cant wait to see them. :D

THERE IS ALREADY A FUCKIN THREAD ABOUT IT

Dude, go and take a chill pill or something. Where is it? I didn't see it on the list.

Or, in language that you can understand, Dejan:

 

WHERE THE FUCK IS IT? I DIDN'T SEE IT ON THE FUCKING LIST.

 

:P

Thank you for translation!

LMAO!

bump

I've just started listening to them, and I love what I hear! Thanks for the constant namedropping Jazz, I never would have heard of them otherwise. ;)

For Jazz & any other Wild Beasties...

 

Wild Beasts Hub Session with George Lamb; BB6 Music

 

Still Got The Taste... --> http://www.mediafire.com/?3knkord2ydd

Hooting & Howling --> http://www.mediafire.com/?5mzjqdzze3m

Chat (Kendal, mint cake, football, halloween stories, mountains, more football) --> http://www.mediafire.com/?zw11dnm5kjy

 

Sorry it's audio only, I can't get the vids off the bbc, the protect everything, maybe someone else can manage it...

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/events/hub/artists/wild-beasts-2.shtml

(VIDEO) Wild Beasts - Live Hoxton Hall gig

 

CHECK IT OUT:

http://wildbeastshoxton.dominorecordco.com/

THERE IS ALREADY A FUCKIN THREAD ABOUT IT[/url]

 

:rolleyes:

:rolleyes:

 

NO

Just got Two Dancers, looking forward to listening to it :wacky:

Ok so, on Radio 1 in the mornings now they do this feature called Music generator, where someone emails in with three of their current fave songs and the generator plays them either a new band/track or something old, that's a bit under the radar, for the listener to make a new musical discovery. The guy that signed up for it yesterday picked Passion Pit, Ellie Goulding & Friendly Fires (good choices!) and they played him Wild Beasts...and I though hey! They're playing a 'new' discovery that I've already heard of...how cool. And I though Jazz might like to know Wild Beasts made it to daytime Radio 1 :D

 

D/load http://www.mediafire.com/?zjlz4tmdyiz

 

I still can't decide if I like them yet or not...I really like this track but I can't stand the guy's vocal :\

 

 

edit: I've got the aah-aah-aah-aah bit stuck in my head now...

Yay for Wild Beasts! LMAO about your description. :D

It is very much appreciated, your effort. Muchos gracias! Going to check it out now.

 

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Well it's always nice when they play a bit of underground indie in amongst all the rap/hiphop/pop/r'n'b shite they normally play :D

They don't know how to play any underground stuff around here :shifty:

 

Jazz I :heart: Wild Beasts

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance:

:pleased:

The album was on repeat all day yesterday. I started singing along to When I'm Sleepy... and my family thought I was crazy :wacky:

LMAO!

Not nearly enough Wild Beasts love on here :P

:heart:

 

 

 

Better? :D

That's way better! :cheesy: