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Wild Beasts

iTunes Festival London 2010 EP

(iTunes; UK: 16 Jul 2010)

As beguiling as they can be, Wild Beasts’ off-kilter three-part-vocal-dominated stylings aren’t necessary what one would call naturally accessible. Luckily, the immediacy of this six-song live set makes it the perfect place for the neophytes to become acquainted with the British quartet, as the band makes its innate quirkiness palatable via the tried-and-true approach of “giving good show”. Onstage, Wild Beasts’ songs are assured and fittingly majestic, with the instrumentation and the band’s quavering Orange Juice-meets-Tindersticks crooning coming together to ebb and rumble like some storybook starry-skied sea. It’s great mood music, and the only failing to be found is that it ends too quickly. But that’s what the albums are for, aren’t they?

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Hailing from California, AJ Ramirez graduated with a BA in English in 2006, and then spent two years working as co-music director at freeform college radio station KDVS 90.3 FM. Since 2010 he has been editor of PopMatters' Sound Affects music blog. He's most at home scouring libraries for band biographies and reading old print music articles archived online.


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