Two Dancers
Album | Wild Beasts
Dramatic romantics take it down a notch.
Not since Suede pranced their way into the British pop charts has a band managed to sound as swooningly romantic and unabashedly dramatic as the Wild Beasts. The band's first album, Limbo, Panto, was an exhilarating but disjointed affair, the sound of a band of band trying too hard to move in a million different directions at once. Two Dancers finds the band more fully embracing melody and settling into less frenetic song structures. The band is still tightly wound and propelled by frontman Hayden Thorpe's expressive falsetto, but Thorpe sounds slightly less hysterical this time around, and songs like "All The King's Men" actually have a sensual, almost sanguine quality about them. Wild Beasts might still be stuck on exploring all the wonderful and sometimes counterproductive joys of hedonism, but Two Dancers is the sound of a band enthusiastically focusing their wild energies.
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