The fourth album from Wild Beasts, Present Tense is due out February 25th, 2014. Present Tense, the followup to 2011’s critically acclaimed Smother, 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 (vocals, guitar, bass, keys), Tom Fleming (vocals, guitar, bass, keys), Chris Talbot (drums) and Ben Little (guitar, keys) 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.
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. The band has shared the video for a new song called “Wanderlust”. The clip, directed by the Barcelona-based collective NYSU, shows various characters (“the thief”, “the good lady”, “the quarterback”, etc.) in motion.
