Results tagged “wildbeasts”

• Is it just us, or does a bank robber fleeing by bike—and making a clean getaway-- seem totally out of place in Houston? In the ATX, you might blend-in while riding a bike, but in H-town?
• Look at the 85 comments on this Statesman story on the closing of the Zilker lawn after ACL! This is an issue that Austin totally cares about!
• That Austin Chronicle cover-art of Bob Schneider is actually a self-portrait. Who knew?

Wild Beasts are a quartet hailing from Leeds, UK, featuring above all else an enormous, show-stopping falsetto from vocalist Hayden Thorpe. There's lush, dynamic pop tunes -- all bearing fruit -- on Two Dancers, but there's no denying the centerpiece. Moaning, yelping and cooing about girls, the night's dirty underbelly and the pretty things that destroy our innocence, Thorpe offers a sort of answer to The The's desperate Dusk; he trills and woos the dangerous side of attraction and temptation with boyish charms.