Wild Beasts Make First Trip To U.S.

Release Acoustic EP

We are happy to announce that Wild Beasts are making their way to the states for the first time ever! Their debut album, Limbo, Panto, was released this past fall on Domino and since then we've been eagerly awaiting their arrival. The UK foursome will be playing several shows throughout SXSW. (All dates are listed below.) Additionally, to celebrate this first journey to the states, Domino will be releasing an EP of acoustic tracks by the band on eMusic on March 24th. The acoustic session was recorded by Richard Formby (Richard Formby on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads), who is producing their forthcoming album. These acoustic tracks are also bundled free with the album when purchased from Domino's own digital store.

Tracklisting:
1. Assembly
2. Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants
3. Cheerio Chaps, Cheerio Goodbye
4. The Devil's Crayon

For more information and to hear/download "The Devil's Crayon" visit: Domino USA | Artists | Wild Beasts

You can check out the Wild Beasts' video for "Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants" here:

Wild Beasts @ SXSW:
Thu. Mar. 19 - 9 PM @ Latitude 30 (512 San Jacinto Blvd.) w/ We Have Band, Hatcham Social, Frank Turner, The Temper Trap (NME)
Fri. Mar. 20 - 4 PM @ San Jose Hotel (1316 S. Congress Ave.) w/ Triple Cobra, Those Darlins, Other Lives, Abalone Dots, Suzanna Choffel, Hill Country Revue, The Mother Hips, Mark Olson and Gary Louris, Alejandro Escovedo Orchestra (SX San Jose)
Sat. Mar. 21- 2:30 PM @ British Music Embassy at Latitute 30 (512 San Jacinto Blvd.) w/ Sky Larkin, Rolo Tomassi, Paul Marshall, Talk To Angels (Yorkshire Launch Party)
Sat. Mar. 21 - 4:50 PM @ French Legation (802 San Marcos) w/ Frank Fairfield, Moriarty, Jeremy Jay, The Soft Pack, Diane Birch, Chief, Act 8, Laura Marling, The Dirty Projectors (Domino Publishing/Press Here party)
Sat. Mar. 21 - 11 PM @ Volume w/ Let's Wrestle, We Have Band, Slow Club, FOUND, Innercity Pirates (Clash Magazine Party)

"Wild Beasts singer Hayden Thorpe can conjure extraordinary melodrama with his voice, as he sings in high, clear tones and stretches his range into a growl with equal finesse. All the while, the rest of the band wraps his fragile, aching phrases in clean guitars and tip-toed drums. It could easily come off as overly posed or mannered, but in the English group's short career, it's already demonstrated an instinct to push past easy uses of its gifts, through both wild experimentation and subtle restraint." -- NPR.org

"Wild Beasts' debut Limbo, Panto is a soaring, singular combination of emotional abandon, frank laddishness, shimmering guitars and cabaret theatricality." -- Paste

"To see a band so gloriously and deliberately esoteric garner such love in the modern era - when the music world seems swamped with careerists and chancers - is not just refreshing, it's practically a miracle. Aside from a small minority of twits twittering, all eyes are fixed on a robust, and at times mesmerising, Wild Beasts. It's a tricky juxtaposition to navigate, but the band somehow manages to balance preposterous ostentatiousness with grittiness, and they also transcend mere trifling genre boundaries, presenting something that is new, and most importantly unique." -- Drowned In Sound