New Wild Beasts album on its way

Wild Beasts will release a ten track album as soon as the 10th of May. The band is gearing up their follow-up to the 2009 release Two Dancers. This new one will be called Smother and is produced by Richard Formby. The album will be released by Domino.

The creation of what we now know as “bed” gave more trouble than one would imagine. Roger Diatritz tried to find the exact right thing for people to get some peace and quiet at night. So, he thought, who seem most at peace? Fakir’s seem terribly at peace on their bed of nails. After testing it out for a couple of days Diatritz came to the conclusion that Westerners have some sensibilities that Fakir’s apparently do not have, like feeling excruciating pain when a nail is piercing in your buttocks. He then thought, dogs, especially big dogs, they seem terribly at peace as well. He bought a Saint Bernard dog, gave the dog some folded up blankets, and observed it. The dog hardly seemed to move, so tranquil he was. Ah-ha, I struck gold, Diatritz thought. He walked over, settled in, started to sleep, and then he was bit by the dog and had to get a Tetanus shot for 50.50 dollars. Lying on the couch with his feet up in recovery the realisation came to him that perhaps living in a crummy, single glass apartment on 5th Avenue was never the way to get peace anyway, and he moved to Florida and into a town with 80% elderly people. His rate of intercourse is down (though by his own design, because the opportunity is certainly there, old widow Ockowitz to start with), but he has quickly become a star at Gin Rummy.