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Wild Beasts: Smother – review

4981 days ago
Guardian Music(Domino)Wild Beasts have never been obvious. In 2008, Limbo, Panto unveiled Hayden Thorpe's extraordinary countertenor and songs with titles such as Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants were never likely to trouble Radio 1. The follow-up, Two Dancers,... more info

Sex obsessed and scrupulously polite: Wild Beasts interview

4981 days ago
Guardian MusicScrupulously polite, overtly literary and obsessed with sex – Wild Beasts are not your average indie band, but their cult is growing fast. Caroline Sullivan met themOn a balmy April morning in east London, Hayden Thorpe is remembering the night l... more info

Wild Beasts - Smother

4983 days ago
DrownedInSoundIt’d be reductive to try and describe a timeless album like Smother as a step up from its two predecessors, or even as a surefire Mercury contender - although it is, on both counts. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

Watch: Wild Beasts acoustic session for Télérama, stream new album

4983 days ago
DrownedInSoundSublime. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

This week's new singles

4983 days ago
Guardian MusicWild Beasts Albatross (Domino) This should be played after a long day at work, where you light the fireplace up in your living room, crack open a bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, and enjoy the song on your lonesome. The half-acoustic/half-electronic ... more info

Listen to album streams from Wild Beasts, Prefuse 73, Love Inks, Fleet Foxes, The Antlers, Raphael Saadiq & more

4984 days ago
Nialler9The best of the last week’s album streams in A-Z. Plenty more in the Album Streams category. Alessi’s Ark  - Time Travel Architecture In Helsinki – Moment Bends Aux Raus - All Creeping Things Stopped Creeping Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Commit... more info

Wild Beasts – Smother: album stream

4984 days ago
Guardian MusicWild Beasts third album picks up where Two Dancers left off, with songs of love, longing and wanton lustIt's less than a year since Wild Beasts were pipped to the Mercury prize by the xx, but the Kendal four-piece are already back with a new album, S... more info

Wild Beasts' track-by-track guide to their third LP Smother

4987 days ago
DrownedInSoundTom Fleming from DiS-favourites Wild Beasts walks us through their forthcoming album... Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

Wild Beasts – Smother Premature Evaluation

4996 days ago
StereogumWild Beasts were winking at us when they gave us a song named “Albatross,” the slow-moving and slinky first single from the band’s third album. Hayden Thorpe’s impossibly pretty falsetto was there, as were the band’s hypnotic, looping drums... more info

Kanye West and The Chemical Brothers to headline The Big Chill 2011 - ticket details

4998 days ago
NMEWild Beasts, Warpaint, Katy B, Janelle Monae and Metronomy are also on the bill more info

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