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When Wild Beasts play they conjure up a
vision of a bawdy Midsummer Night’s Dream. Their music sounds like a prayer to
Dionysus; a frenzied Pagan ritual. Their lyrics evoke humanity’s basest
emotions – fear, desire, and lust. A sense of “otherness,” entirely dissimilar
to anything you may hear elsewhere, pervades much of their music.
There is a primitive hunger in songs like
Wanderlust, the lead single from their latest album Present Tense: “Now that
you belong to me/ I’ll tell you how I want to feel…” The percussion is both
propulsive and jarring, driving the song yet also providing a slight discordant unease, imbuing it with a slightly unsettling air.
Vocal harmonising, although still present,
has given way to more synth arrangements. However, the songs are no less
intricate than their previous albums and standouts such as Mecca, Pregnant
Pause and Daughters are each underscored by a murky bass, shrouding harmonies
in earthy, atmospheric tones.
In short: this is very good.
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