Present Tense

2014 release, the fourth studio album from the British Indie band and follow up to 2011's SMOTHER. Gleaming and sparkling with 1980s and 1990s electronic sound rethought and retooled with exquisite detail for the 21st century. It doesn't sound like any boys-with-guitars band you've ever heard. And despite the coherence of it's sweeping song structures, it wasnt written so much as constructed from the ground up from tiny phrases and fragments, then it was layered together in the studio by Wild Beasts with co-producers Lexxx and Brian Eno protege Leo Abrahams. Even using this cut and paste recording style the band somehow retains all of the coherence that can only come from years playing together in basements and on stages. Wild Beasts have created their own world which the listener has no choice but to enter and immerse themselves in.