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Wild Beasts announce new album

By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 25 May 2016

Wild Beasts are releasing a new album, which is good news, I think. Maybe you do too. Come, take my hand and we can walk through this news story about it together.

The album is called ‘Boy King’ and will be out on 5 Aug. It sees them getting “back to being pissed off”, says the band’s Tom Fleming. “After five records there had to be an element of ‘what the fuck?'” adds Hayden Thorpe.

“It became apparent that that guitar almost became the character within the songs, that phallic character, the all-conquering male”, Thorpe continues. “I’m letting my inner Byron fully out, I thought I’d tucked him away, but he came screaming back like the Incredible Hulk. I think ‘Boy King’ is an apocalyptic record. It’s about swimming in the abyss. When you think about sex, you’ve got to think about death, they’re one and the same”.

Are they? Oh well, have a little taste of what all of that might sound like on first single ‘Get My Bang’:

Tour dates? Yes, there are tour dates:

28 Sep: Bristol, Motion
29 Sep: Oxford, Academy
30 Sep: Margate, Dreamland
1 Oct: Sheffield, The Foundry
3 Oct: Cambridge, The Junction
4 Oct: London, The Roundhouse
7 Oct: Newcastle, Northumbria Uni
8 Oct: Glasgow, QMU
9 Oct: Manchester, Academy