Artist: Wild Beasts
Title: Limbo, Panto
Label: Domino
Genre: Indie
Bitrate: 181kbit av.
Time: 00:41:39
Size: 56.90 mb
Rip Date: 2008-06-12
Str Date: 2008-06-16
1. Vigil For A Fuddy Duddy 4:43
2. The Club of Fathomless Love 3:44
3. The Devil's Crayon 3:38
4. Woeboegone Wanderers 4:54
5. The Old Dog 4:27
6. Please Sir 3:27
7. His Grinning Skull 4:36
8. She Purred While I Grrred 3:30
9. Brace Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants 4:02
10. Cheerio Chaps Cheerio Goodbye 4:38
Release Notes:
Sally forth of a Saturday evening into any one of BritainÆs
murderous provincial town squares; the smell of testosterone
mingles with sweating lambÆs flesh while punters duck into
dive after dive as refugees pleading for sanctuary. What do
you see? A zoo? Wild Beasts see a ballet.
In Limbo, Panto this remarkable Leeds-via-Kendal four piece
present a kind of Songs Of Innocence And Experience for the
juvenile male psyche; cataloguing its obsessions, its foibles
and its transferred desires with a satiristÆs eye for the
absurd and an artistÆs eye for the absurdly beautiful.
With lofty intent, then, the end justifies the frequently
bewildering means: musically-speaking, Wild Beasts peddle an
indecent but skilfully realised mix of village fete
tomfoolery, Orange JuiceÆs subtle melodicism and, in frontman
Hayden ThorpeÆs divisive falsetto aneurisms, a diva croon to
rival the oddball likes of Russell Mael and Billy McKenzie.
With tracks like early calling-card 'Brave Bulging Buoyant
Clairvoyants', æThe Club Of Fathomless LoveÆ (ôfull with
fierce, fathomless love / I spit and have spats to be roughö)
Wild Beasts drink deep of the youthful elixir and dole out
drubbings to the faces of their forefathers, only to find
themselves undone in ways that have plagued mankind since time
immemorial. Or not, as the case may be: æCheerio ChapsÆ is a
grief-stricken music hall number examining what being shot out
of a circus cannon will do for your wounded sense of male
pride (ôI gloat with gritted grin / to cheat my chin into
keeping the womanly wibbling inö).
To qualify a little: Limbo, Panto isnÆt a perfect debut, but
in terms of range and depth of ambition thereÆs no new band in
the UK can hold a candle to Wild Beasts right now, save
perhaps These New Puritans, and theirs feels a much more
consciously-willed autonomy, if no less valid.
Which isnÆt to say our subjectsÆ sound was merely stumbled
upon; you can bet your bottom dollar there isnÆt a stroke on
this reco