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some reviewer posted the Hooting and Howling video here before Two Dancers came out and I've been hooked ever since. I still say they should have used top line gear for that video instead of crap, Woolworths instruments- I real tragedy I know, I cringe when I see bands smashing worthy instruments up but maybe they could've made models of great gear and used those or "prepared" great gear for an underwater adventure but I digress.

You're right, we'll have to see- I'm hoping for the best cause I do love them.

they should stay the course and if a course change is necessary then it should be into the even "weirder" waters as you said.

I just don't see how they can keep themselves going. I hate to say Wild Beasts are one trick ponies but I fear- they are. I don't think they have the creative elasticity of say Nick Cave who has been able to dive in and out of various niches and stay afloat (I think he is in grinderman so he can return to things like Birthday Party and early Nick). No, I think Wild Beasts will be 1 or 2 good albums and ADIOS.

Sometimes I even hear some Jarboe warbling away in the breasts of Wild Beasts but I do feel they are "original" despite that. I usually let artists be themselves and not compare them overly. What I am pointing out is that they've pinned everything on some campy falsetto vocals and if you subtract that you are left with is a band who writes worthy tunes and come off a bit samey; something between Radiohead and Coldplay. That might sell some records but it's not going to get them entered into the hall of "important artists".

but why does my general brilliance in this field annoy you? I do have an accute sense for what is fleeting mediocrity and timeless brilliance- I have proven it time and time again over the many decades I have been watching and listening. This isn't something I've just noticed in the last 21 months since I've been a DiSer.

or one album (like I think Wild Beasts will be) but some artists are remembered for their entire body of work- 6 albums or even more sometimes and those artists are of a timeless echelon, artists who even their perceived "failures" are absolute treasure.

is not the same guy as the one with the falsetto. There's two singers.

We are saying it's a pity. Poor Wild Beasts will be dead soon.

and wasn't just a cursory aural glance off the XBOX and kitchen telly?

I can't tell you how proud I am of you at this moment- close to crying, honestly.

pessimistic or pragmatic but probably pessimistic- I do tend to look on the un-bright side.

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and If you do, then your opinion becomes a strong opinion and if you can back up an opinion with strong arguments it may become "truth". If you believe your opinion; it will always matter to at least one person- that's a beginning.

I think Wild Beasts have potential to go beyond their quirkiness but I don't think they have the vision or the conviction to be important artists therefore, at this moment, I feel that they are headed into a corner.

I think what I meant by the footsteps-thing is that they could potentially be important artists and have shown glimpses of it on several of their songs but they are basically pop artists who have a pop audience to answer to and will not walk the path of the unknown, they won't be allowed to do that because they want to headline Reading and sell records. Of course if they really wanted to walk a more dedicated, groundbreaking creative pathway they could- I hope they do. More than likely though, they will be another Editors or Bloc Party and wind up having their music mostly forgotten and become objects of mockery on DiS over some woman named Edith Beaumont or something like that- you'll see.