Sex obsessed and scrupulously polite: Wild Beasts interview

Scrupulously 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 last September when Wild Beasts failed to win the Mercury Prize for their second album, Two Dancers. "Being nominated was like being on the Alton Towers ride Oblivion, where you're suspended over a chasm – and we saw the xx disappear into it. The mo...

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