Already tipped for the top by music magazine NME back in 2007, the Wild Beasts are now increasingly difficult to ignore. Following on from their 2008 debut album (Limbo, Panto) the second album is Two Dancers, released in Europe on the 7th September. Falsetto front man Hayden Thorpe, (sounds like Antony Hegarty -Antony & the Johnstons) leads this very British band in the tradition of Roxy Music and The Smiths (and not Oasis or Blur). Wild Beasts play with words unapologetically, Thorpe's acrobatic vocals sing fantastical songs about modern Britain. The band doesn't fit nicely into any particular scene, we'll be welcoming them with open arms.

• Wild Beasts is part of the Loops programme at Crossing Border.

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• YouTube: Enjoy the great song 'Hooting & Howling''
• 'Extraordinary, captivating, one of 2009's indisputable masterpieces' album of the week' - Sunday Times
• 'The best new British guitar band of the last couple of years' - Uncut