Present Tense, by Wild Beasts

Present Tense

by Wild Beasts

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grUEnfront Sweetest Spot is exactly that - a suspension of time, a sonic intimation of that godly state where dream and real may consummate. Favorite track: Sweet Spot.

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1.	Wanderlust 04:54	info	buy track
2.	Nature Boy 03:33	info	buy track
3.	Mecca 03:44	info	buy track
4.	Sweet Spot 03:59	info	buy track
5.	Daughters 04:46	info	buy track
6.	Pregnant Pause 03:09	info	buy track
7.	A Simple Beautiful Truth 02:35	info	buy track
8.	A Dog's Life 03:21	info	buy track
9.	Past Perfect 02:57	info	buy track
10.	New Life 04:37	info	buy track
11.	Palace 03:20	info	buy track

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Present Tense is a dramatically new album – taking cues from the most intense and effervescent of 1980s and 1990s electronic sound but rethinking and retooling these elements with exquisite detail for the 21st century.

Longer in creation than any of its predecessors, Hayden Thorpe, Tom Fleming, Chris Talbot and Ben Little took almost a full year away from touring to conceive and construct the eleven tracks of Present Tense. Written in London and recorded at Konk Studios in London and at The Distillery in Bath, the band worked in close collaboration with co-producers Lexxx and Brian Eno protégé Leo Abrahams to create a record of astounding intricacy, coherence and emotional resonance.

Alongside its breathtaking leap in production, Present Tense also finds the band at the peak of their considerable songwriting powers – each one of the album’s eleven tracks illuminating the precious, tender, sad and funny moments of modern life in their trademark plain-spoken poetics.

Already rightly considered to be one of contemporary Britain's most innovative and vital bands, Present Tense sees the group's ever-restless collective muse lead them to remarkable new heights - boldly embracing new production techniques and songwriting forms whilst retaining the thrilling idiosyncrasies that have made them so beloved over the course of three beguiling and beautiful albums to date.

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released February 24, 2014

2014, Domino Recording Co Ltd

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