Schubas
3159 N Southport Ave
773.525.2508
This event has passed.
-
Wild Beasts
- When
-
Thursday Feb 18, 2010 (9pm)
Friday Feb 19, 2010 (10pm)
- Where
-
- Price
-
$15
- Links
- Sold Out!
For all the new-found open spaces and rhythmic expansiveness on Wild Beasts' Two Dancers (Domino, 2009), it's still singer Hayden Thorpe's majestic, preening falsetto that announces itself like a peacock in bovver boots. (Think Billy MacKenzie's flamboyance plus Brett Anderson's cocksure androgyny.) Whether filling harmonies for bassist/platooning singer Tom Fleming's baritone or strutting out front, Thorpe's theatrics elevate these slices of youthful hedonism to the level of high drama. Take the lead single, "Hooting and Howling," in which Thorpe's dare to would-be rivals still somehow comes off like a dance of seduction. It's a Decadents' manifesto, full of thuggish dandyism and glamorous machismo, and it's easily the best salve for "dead below the waist" indie to come along in years.
