The four boys of Wild Beasts aren't concerned with being of the modern, or being of the renaissance, being baggy pantsed or being tight pantsed, being in a scene or being in a place. Wild Beasts' music just is.
Braving Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants is a smash and grab sensation of a pop song that whiffs or cheap aftershave on teenage cheek flesh, ripe with a sheer lust for adventure. This thrilling debut single will wash the mouth of the current alternative music scene through its jutter jiving urgency, reeling rhythms and soft-on-the-outside-hard-on-the-inside vocals.
Flip side The Old Dog is what Laurel is to Hardy, afterthought is to impulse, always in cahoots with it's boisterous younger brother A-side, this gentle giant's cameo role acts as the last hurrah, proudly plodding with beautiful mournful merriment.
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