Limbo, Panto

Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto
Critic Score
Based on 18 reviews
2008 Ratings: #147 / 806
User Score
Based on 64 ratings
2008 Rank: #112
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CRITIC REVIEWS

82
Pitchfork

Wild Beasts' name comes from the 20th century French art movement Les Fauves (also the inspiration for Les Savy Fav), so maybe the French term "belle laide"-- a woman who is attractive but not conventionally beautiful-- best describes singer Hayden Thorpe's voice. Thorpe's voice howls and thrashes, other times it actually sings or simpers or sighs, but only when he stretches it to the ceiling does it come into its own. His voice feels close in temperament to Antony Hegarty or Baby Dee's, but its mix of pointed sexuality and ambiguous gender points back to Boy George or David Bowie.

80
Drowned in Sound

Limbo, Panto is shocking, funny, and above all irrevocable. Expect this lot to be around for the long haul.

80
Uncut
Hayden Norman Thorpe's falsetto squawk is the controversial focal point but his lust for language is equally extraordinary.
rodinator
80

fruity white men singing about sex. fun time.

Jamobo
75

Wild Beasts, 4 of the Whitest, most effeminate men you could ever find singing about sex raunchy enough to make Prince blush:

Room a catacomb, this ghoul a balloon, with the breath
From beneath your breast, yes that is best
Hug it to me, and the rubber raspberries
With wantingly wet mouth I suck..remind me of your gentle fuck

Men to be men, must love and pity
So deeply and secretly

Flaccid, I asked for this
Below spit rich belly pit moan and blush with hot hormone
Wash it from me, this stuff ... read more

WildChameleon
73

Sometimes it feels too much of "hayden showing off his operatic voice" but overall it's fun (and about sex ! Don't be prude for this album).

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Track List

  1. Vigil For A Fuddy Duddy
  2. The Club Of Fathomless Love 
  3. The Devil's Crayon 
  4. Woebegone Wanderers
  5. The Old Dog 
  6. Please, Sir
  7. His Grinning Skull
  8. She Purred, While I Grrred
  9. Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants 
  10. Cheerio, Chaps, Cheerio Goodbye

Year End Lists

#29/Drowned in Sound
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