Wild Beasts

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30.12.2009 10:49
Music critics praised Merriweather Post Pavilion as the best album of the year
HMV Group revealed its annual «poll of poll» for music industry. This list of the best albums of 2009 is based on another 34 end of the year polls among music critics held by the magazines, TV channels and websites.

23.02.2011 16:32
Wild Beasts to release new album
Members of English rock band revealed details about their next studio effort. According to the statement by frontman Hayden Thorpe, it was influenced by pop duo Fuck Buttons and famous book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.

16.09.2010 12:05
The XX don't know when they will record new album
The XX revealed that they didn't have plans to start the work on next album soon. "There is no plan to even put out a second album. There's just a plan to start being creative again, with no big intentions", said the band’s frontman Oliver Sim.

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Biography

Wild Beasts is an English rock-band assembled in Kendal in 2002 and now based in Leeds. Initially, this project was designed as a duet called Fauve and consisting of guitarist and vocalist Hayden Thorpe and guitarist Ben Little. After they were joined by drummer Chris Talbot, the group was renamed to Wild Beasts. As a trio, the outfit recorded their self-titled debut EP. The formation of the lineup ended after they recruited bassist Tom Fleming, which was shortly followed by the relocation to Leeds and signing up an agreement with a small label called Bad Sneakers Records. In November 2006, the musicians prepared and delivered to the stores their first single under the title Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants. Colored by the easily recognizable vocals of Hayden Thorpe, this song elevated to the seventeenth place in the independent labels charts. The music channel BBC 6 also took part in promoting the song giving it considerable amount of airplay. As confident beginning as this one gave the lads an opportunity to find quickly a new partner in the shape of the company Domino Records.

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