Wild Beasts
Two Dancers

Another great release "Two Dancers" by Wild Beasts, for this 2009. Very personal and of quality, with decidedly retro tastes (just look at them), to really understand how and what they play, take Antony and The Johnsons and add a bit of good music halfway between alt-indie-pop, synth pop and a touch of soul like "Orange Juice" (just listen to the voice).

The joyful melodies of the previous album are canceled, and they present themselves with a minimal sound, dense with studied and very complex melodies, which never completely disappear; in fact, they distance themselves but then return. All enriched and spiced by the beautiful lyricism of the voices.

It starts with "Fun Powder Plot", an objectively beautiful intro, from which retro-glam tastes are immediately noticeable; right after comes "Hooting & Howling" with its sweet and refined piano, almost silenced later by brazen riffs. Then it moves to the funky-disco "All The Kings Men".

After the first three fast-paced initial tracks, it moves to the almost interlude of "When I'm Sleepy" with its curious rhymes. With the disco-pop "We Still Got The Taste Dancing On Our Tongues" it seems a bit like returning to the sounds of the debut album. Then comes the track that gives the album its title, "Two Dancers" with its steady and constant distorted guitar; and it's precisely from here that one begins to grasp the new more "serious" path undertaken by the band. "Two Dancers II" does the same. All this is understood even more in the final track "Empty Nest".

What to say, 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. Well, Wild Beasts manage it by the second, and how!