![]() Joan Wasser was always cool now, with her fifth album, she adds warmth, leaning towards neo-soul. Joan As Police Woman (album, Mar 10th European tour, Mar 13th to May 4th). Once raw like sushi, now about to turn 50. Neneh Cherry (album, Feb 24th European tour, Feb 25th to Mar 7th). ![]() Wild Beasts on tour (America, Britain, Europe), Feb 18th to Apr 15th ![]() "All we want is to know the vivid moment," Thorpe sings, like an artist squeezing paint straight from the tube. The music is simple, almost pop, but it makes political points-ranging from the class system to the commoditisation of art-and also dwells on intimacy and loss. Songs are pared down to strict rhythms and bold synths, and words wielded like blunt instruments. With "Present Tense", Wild Beasts return to their essence. Over the next two albums, their perverse poetry won friends even as its peculiarities faded into prettier songs that tackled more universal themes of nostalgia and romance. On their debut album in 2008, Hayden Thorpe's quivering counter-tenor told boorish tales of huffing and puffing on mattresses, the biting of fruit and manly bulges, in the soft accent of his native Kendal. ![]() Wild Beasts are a British band who take their name, and their cue, from the French expressionist painters the Fauves-rendering their songs in lurid hues.
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