Brit band Wild Beasts slam singing in 'American'

A FEW days ago Wild Beasts’ Hayden Thorpe picked up the phone and called Domino Records, the band’s label of eight years. He had, he felt, some explaining to do.

“We made a comment that was wrongly interpreted as having a go at Arctic Monkeys,” says the singer. “We are not stupid enough to disregard the fact that Arctic Monkeys are the flagship of Domino and are doing fantastic things around the world. It was kind of embarrassing. So I had to speak to the label, to say ‘Sorry about this’.”