Wild Beasts: Two Dancers

(Domino)It's hard to think of a recent rock vocalist who has caused as much consternation as Hayden Thorpe, the countertenor at the head of Cumbrian quartet Wild Beasts. There was Antony Hegarty of course, lowing mournfully away like Nina Simone phoning Call You and Yours to complain about cuts to her local bus service, but not even he engendered quite the same degree of critical frothing. One journalist - apparently driven temporarily insane by Wild Beasts' 2008 debut album Limbo, Panto - came ...

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