WILD BEASTS
Limbo, Panto
(Domino)
By Todd Lavoie
I find myself flirting with hyperbole when I ponder the preening, careening chaos that is Limbo, Panto, the debut from Leeds, England’s elegantly lurid Wild Beasts – and I fear I may give in.
Hearing the disc for the first time was a bit of a blindsiding experience, and successive listens have confirmed for me what I’d felt on that initial spin: these guys are clearly out on their own, hurling every idea in their lusty little hearts up against the wall, eager to see which ones stick. Mercifully, nearly every one of the quartet’s fits of whimsy does stick – many of them, in fact, do so with spectacular results.