Wild Beasts were an English indie rock band formed in Kendal, Cumbria, in 2002. The group was led by vocalists Hayden Thorpe and Tom Fleming and released several albums before splitting in 2018.

Origin: Kendal, Cumbria, England. Active 2002–2018. Two Dancers (2009) received a Mercury Prize nomination. Noted for the contrast between Hayden Thorpe's falsetto and Tom Fleming's baritone and for a progression from exuberant indie-pop to more synth-driven, artful productions.

DeBaser reviews praise the band's vocal contrast (Thorpe's falsetto vs Fleming's baritone), inventive arrangements and shift toward synth-driven, impressionistic production. Two Dancers is celebrated as a breakthrough; Limbo, Panto is admired for genius amid unruliness; Present Tense is noted for textured, Eighties-tinged synth work. Overall the coverage is appreciative and descriptive.

For:Listeners of artful indie, synth-pop, dream-pop and vocal-driven alternative music.

 What a mess trying to decipher Limbo, Panto.

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 Wild Beasts are succeeding in paving the way for new pop tinged with old sounds, even venturing into dream-pop (the darker kind), thanks to their uninhibited sensuality, but embellished by growth, the one they say is of the third album, the growth towards adult pop.

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 If one could represent the setting in which the fourth album of the "Wild Beasts" (a name partly borrowed from the early 20th-century French painters, the Fauves, or wild beasts) moves and translate it into a single word, we could define it as "Impressionist".

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