We love posting live concert material here at RE, so thanks for the folks at Baeble Music for putting this bit into our mailbox today. It’s from the recent Mercury Lounge performance by England’s Wild Beasts [MySpace] who “bring shape shifting melodies, dense textures, sophisticated compositions, sky-high falsettos, and libidinous lyrics to a very moody Mercury Lounge”. That sounds intense, right?

If that’s got you intrigued, come check out the entire set “after the jump”

[mp3] Wild Beasts – “All the Kings Men”
[mp3] Wild Beasts – “The Empty Nest”

“Filmed under the cover of the Mercury Lounge’s moodiest of lighting, this video casts the band in an appropriately mysterious manner. Here selections from both Two Dancers and Limbo Panto, the album that preceded it, are recreated so true to form, it’s startling. The band’s shape shifting melodies, dense textures, sophisticated compositions, sky-high falsettos, libidinous lyrics; even on a dark, foreign stage performances of “This Is Our Lot”, “The Devil’s Crayon”, ” Fun Powder Plot”, and “Hooting and Howling” leave no part of their music to chance, exquisitely recreating even the most modest characteristics of their recordings, ultimately upholding the band’s lofty, ultimate vision in the process. It’s a stunning thing to witness, and it’s all for the taking in this incredible concert video.”

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