The buoyant “All The King’s Men” comes from multi-vocal UK quartet Wild Beasts’ second album Two Dancers, the followup to 2008′s Limbo, Panto. The group describes the collection as “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.” In this one, we get a mention of that bedroom along with “Girls from Rodean, girls from Shipley, from Hounslow, girls from Whitby” (aka “all you pretty things in search of somebody”). Of course, there’s also plenty of Hayden Thorpe’s atmospherically rich falsetto woven throughout.
Two Dancers is out 9/8 in the via Domino. The band’s playing their first NYC show on that date (yes, 9/8) at Joe’s Pub. It’s their first time playing in any US city outside of Austin.
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Oh and your tag for “Wild Beasts” says “Wild Beats”
I’m really glad you’ve started covering these guys! They’re from my native county of Cumbria and it’s very rare anyone from here ever gets heard. I’m not certain people from Brooklyn, or anywhere else with a vibrant music scene for that matter, can appreciate how happy it makes me, since new talent emerges there every single month it seems. The album is really worth picking up too, it will definitely feature on many end-of-year lists.
Oh and I agree with the guy above about the comment ratings.
same for me but for their more recent home of leeds :P
it’s fun that a not awful band from leeds is getting fairly large recognition…
yeah man, i’ve got love for leeds too; very nice city! and they deserved a better flagship band than the Pigeon Detectives haha.
This band is amazingly good, they deserve more coverage, especially for their latest album.
The singing on these guys’ debut was a little out-of-control for my taste, though “THe Devil’s Crayon” was brilliant. But this new album is great, the falsettos just restrained enough…but there’s some amazing guitarwork on this album. I love it.
Limbo Panto was a favourite of mine in 2008….I like this one too, but I think that it’s less theatric, less exciting, which is what made their first album so good. I hope to see them live in NA soon.
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Pigeon Detectives were at the forefront of my mind when i typed ‘awful band’ haha