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Single Reviews
Single Review: Wild Beasts – We Still Got The Taste Dancin On Our Tongues (Domino)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 22 March 2010
The third single taken from Wild Beasts’ exemplary second album, ‘Two Dancers’, is another lascivious and intoxicating treat for the senses. Hayden Thorpe hoots and howls (pun mildly intended) his way in as the ‘spirit kicks’ and the bobbling drum beat follows suit. It has much the same feel as the previous two singles with Thorpe’s prominent falsetto arranged over shimmering guitar sounds and a convulsive, heaving rhythm reminiscent both in sound and feel to Gang Gang Dance’s ‘House Jam’. Borrowing on that playful energy that is so bountiful in ‘House Jam’, Wild Beasts titillate and tease the listener bringing them in to their deftly crafted sensuous world.
Lyrically, too, the theme is concurrent with previous singles, part bawdy, part harmless gambol – indeed Thorpe decries any criticism by puritan hands singing “what’s so wrong with a little fun?” Once on the town the lyrics play out like an updated version of a DH Lawrence short story, removed from the Black Country and projected onto to the streets of any modern town or city in England. It is this romanticism and common ancestry that gives it such playfulness. Lines like “trousers and blouses make excellent sheets, down dimly lit streets” are so full of sentimentality of both youth and location that it makes us wonder whether they themselves are not the “oldies in their dressing gowns”. It’s a beautiful summation of the fleetingness of youth; an exciting, cursory, moment in the moon shine.
‘We Still Got The Taste…’ is a uniquely Wild Beastian spectacle, erotic and entertaining, yet strangely sensitive and tasteful. SJS
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