Wild Beasts Announce New Album Boy King, Share “Get My Bang” Video: Watch
Wild Beasts have announced a new album, the followup to 2014’s Present Tense. Boy King, produced by John Congleton in Dallas, Texas, is out August 5 on Domino; you can see the video for its first single, “Get My Bang,” below, along with the album art and tracklist. The new video, directed by Olivier Groulx, sees a leather-jacketed Hayden Thorpe and another dancer in a sleazy, side-alley dance-off beside a bus depot. Scroll down to see their tour dates.
Speaking about the record in a press release, Thorpe said:
It became apparent that that guitar almost became the character within the songs, that phallic character, the all-conquering male. I’m letting my inner Byron fully out, I thought I’d tucked him away, but he came screaming back like the Incredible Hulk. … I think Boy King is an apocalyptic record. It’s about swimming in the abyss. When you think about sex, you’ve got to think about death, they’re one and the same.
Boy King:
01 Big Cat
02 Tough Guy
03 Alpha Female
04 Get My Bang
05 Celestial Creatures
06 2BU
07 He The Colossus
08 Ponytail
09 Eat Your Heart Out Adonis
10 Dreamliner
Wild Beasts:
06-18 Madrid, Spain – MadCool Festival
07-26-27 Leeds, England – Brudenell Social Club
07-28-29 Brighton, England – Hove Old market
08-18 Brecon Beacons, Wales – Green Man Festival
08-26 Dumfries, Scotland - Electric Fields
08-27 Helsinki, Finland – Modern Sky Festival
09-02 Vlieland, Netherlands – Into the Great Wide Open
09-04 Laois, Ireland – Electric Picnic
09-24 Hamburg, Germany – Reeperbahn Festival
09-28 Bristol, England – Motion
09-29 Oxford, England – O2 Academy
09-30 Margate, England – By The Sea Festival
10-01 Sheffield, England – The Foundry
10-03 Cambridge, England – The Junction
10-04 London, England – The Roundhouse
10-07 Newcastle, England – Northumbria Uni
10-08 Glasgow, Scotland – QMU
10-09 Manchester, England – Academy
10-12 Belgium, Brussels – Botanique Orangeries
10-13 Paris, France – La Gaîté Lyrique
10-14 Tourcoing, France – Le Grand Mix
10-15 Strasbourg, France – La Laiterie
10-16 Cologne, Germany – Luxor
10-18 Copenhagen, Denmark – Pumpehuset
10-20 Berlin, Germany – Kesselhaus
10-21 Prague, Czechia – Lucerna Music Bar
10-23 Zurich, Switzerland – Rote Fabrik
10-25 Milan, Italy, Magnolia
10-26 Lyon, France – Epicure Moderne
10-29 Bilbao, Spain – BIME
Watch Wild Beasts do “Mecca” at Pitchfork Music Festival:
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