Album Review: Wild Beasts - Boy King

4/5

Wild Beasts have conceived of their fifth album as a grand statement — a record that deconstructs and even repudiates many of the things this most un-laddish of indie outfits have until now stood for.

Previously, the Cumbria band had styled themselves a sort of anti-Oasis: in touch with their feelings, sensitive towards others and disapproving of the swaggering masculinity de rigueur among a certain stripe of UK groups (they were the boys who DID cry).