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Wild Beasts

I cannot recommend seeing this band in concert strongly enough. As wonderful as the songs are on record, I don't think you get the full idea of their character or a full sense of their level of craft as musicians. Their set is both unambiguously fun and heart-meltingly lovely, and I find that this combination of silly and romantic is quite hard to come by. Also, it's worth noting that the singers look exactly as you'd want them to: Hayden Thorpe has a shabby, roguish affect that suits his hobo-with-the-voice-of-an-opera-diva style, and Tom Fleming -- the guy with the deep, heroic tone -- looks like he should be riding around on a horse in a suit of armor. [Fluxblog]

The above review is from Friday night's show at Union Pool in Brooklyn (9/11). It was the final of three Wild Beasts shows in NYC last week. The others were at Joe's Pub and at Mercury Lounge. They currently have no other U.S. dates scheduled.

More pictures from Union Pool, the setlist & video, along with all international tour dates, below...

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posted at 11:46 AM on September 14, 2009 in music | pictures | Comments (1)