Wild BeastsBest Wild Beasts Albums Ranked
8.0
Avg Score
17
Opinions
6
Albums
6
Reviewers
Summary from 17 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Wild Beasts's catalog across 6 albums from 17 opinions, with an overall average of 8.0/10. The top-rated Wild Beasts album is Two Dancers (2009) with a 8.8/10 average from 3 ratings, followed by Boy King and Present Tense. The discography on Wavelength spans 2008 to 2018.
Boy King
“Boy King makes Wild Beasts' back catalogue seem tame”
Two Dancers
“UK quartet follows 2008's fidgety, impulsive baroque-rock debut, Limbo, Panto, with an album that refashions them as a steely art-funk outfit.”
Present Tense
“The distinctive sound of Wild Beasts—the dueling voices of Hayden Thorpe and Tom Fleming, a sleek and supple rhythm section, immaculate production—remains on the new Present Tense, but there's a marked shift in lyrical tone. This is on the surface a more domesticated Wild Beasts, but they've lost none of their skill for sharp observation.”
Smother
“The uncompromising UK art-pop group returns with a record that continues down the path of Two Dancers, paring its sound down even further.”
Limbo, Panto
“The debut album from the UK's unique Wild Beasts is essentially a morality play as cabaret show as rollicking indie rock record.”
Boy King
“Wild Beasts’ enduring evolution has quietly made them one of the country’s most consistent bands. From the outsider pop of debut album ‘Limbo Panto’ and the sexual restlessness of ‘Two Dancers’ to the stripped back ‘Smother’, they’ve progressively harnessed the ostentatious intent that both coloured and, at times, cloyed their early releases. Their previous record, ‘Present Tense’ was a definitiv”
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