(Just Heard) Come to Wild Beasts

'Plaything' from Wild Beasts' latest album, Smother, hunts to devour and salvage. "We're very British and we talk about sex a lot," Ben Little chuckles. Indeed: British cultural and literary references abound. (Just look to Samuel Taylor Coleridge in "Albatross" and Mary Shelly in "Bed of Nails".) The band's composition rows in unison. The percussion narrates the lyrics, for instance, while the singing translates the guitar. The reason the...

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