Wild Beasts - Boy King (LP)

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Where 2014'€™s Present Tense album found Wild Beasts in reflective mood, absorbing a fascination with online culture and electronic music, Boy King has them, as Tom Fleming puts it, "€œback to being pissed off."€ The quartet'€™s ever-present knack for sensual melody via Hayden Thorpe and Fleming'€™s dueting vocals, Ben Little'€™s sinuous guitar groove and Chris Talbot'€™s potent rhythm section carries in Boy King, an aggressive, snarling and priapic beast that delves into the darker side of masculinity and Thorpe'€™s own psyche.

A newfound creative friction between Thorpe and Fleming proved key to unleashing the record'€™s unique pop sensibility, with Fleming'€™s more visceral experimentation unlocking new dimensions in Thorpe'€™s own writing. It's yet another incomparable Wild Beasts record; a visceral, sensual and jolting body of work that acts as a remarkable soundtrack to the early 21st Century male malaise.