There should be no surprise Wild Beasts and their haunting Two Dancers are up for the much desired Barclaycard Mercury Prize. The four Brits are a shameless bunch. They dazzle you with their music, they show you their magical world, they creep into your soul and make you forget all about the other bands you’ve ever heard. They simply turn into your favourite band after just one guitar chord. There should also be no surprise We’ve Still Got The Taste Dancing On Our Tongues was chosen as a new single.
Perfectly stylish like a Tom Ford film, it sparkles with its understated guitar riff. As if an homage to Clockwork Orange (“Us kids are cold and cagey rattling around the town/ Scaring the oldies into their dressing gowns”), it calls all arms to a night of debauchery. Through The Iron Gate drips sexuality. Hayden Thorpe’s neurotic vocals and the steady drums, the way the melody tangles around you brain, they all throw you into a dark world of back alleys and striking loneliness, of grey faces and resentment. The acoustic version of Devil’s Crayon only helps add to the beauty of the song: the studied urgency of the original is replaced by a soft guitar that twitches under the spell of the song’s words. The remix for Two Dancer II done by producer Jon Hopkins is also nothing to be ashamed of: its heavy electro beats do not take away anything of the song’s mystery or grace. They but make it even more haunting, a song between to worlds, those of the dancefloor and of bedroom meditation.
As expected, this EP it is a masterful release: what could be bad about it? It is just a reminder that one should love the art-rockers and never give their hearts away to false idols.
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