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"Big Cat" by Wild Beasts
Curated by: Mike Floeck
Spotify: bit.ly/BigCatWildBeasts
Genre: #indiedance
Ladies and gentlemen, I have an announcement to make: THIS is how you serve drama and attitude with nothing but a drum kit. By a simple kick, a snap, and the splash of a hi hat, drummer Chris Halbert frames the scene on “Big Cat”: leather jackets and cigarettes dance in the minds of two beings dangling on a wire, each strung between being a lover and being a boss. By looping two or three voices in harmony to create the chord progression backing and piping in one voice later through a vocoder, the landscape of the song becomes sparse and desolate. All we feel is the sexual tension; look, but don’t touch. “Better show me what you got.”
Through all the teasing taunts and beckoning cat-calls, it is the Cat here that controls the vibe. Slinky, sensual and ready to pounce, lead vocalist Hayden Thorpe is menacing over the instrumentation as he looks for more. The album was produced by John Congleton in Dallas, Texas; Congleton has also worked on records for Blondie, St. Vincent and many, many more. He helped Wild Beasts to produce a gnarly, more raw sound for their fifth studio album, something more aggressive than what they’ve recorded in the past.
Critics of the album noted how ironic it is that toxic masculinity is being studied and “critiqued” while the music exemplifies traditionally masculine, toxic ideals (leather jackets and cigarettes, we’ll call them). While the songs do espouse these ideals, they study a vibe that is more diminutive: the Cat that’s the subject is the singer, not the listener, and that gives the listener the control.
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"Big Cat" by Wild Beasts
Curated by: Mike Floeck
Spotify: bit.ly/BigCatWildBeasts
Genre: #indiedance
Ladies and gentlemen, I have an announcement to make: THIS is how you serve drama and attitude with nothing but a drum kit. By a simple kick, a snap, and the splash of a hi hat, drummer Chris Halbert frames the scene on “Big Cat”: leather jackets and cigarettes dance in the minds of two beings dangling on a wire, each strung between being a lover and being a boss. By looping two or three voices in harmony to create the chord progression backing and piping in one voice later through a vocoder, the landscape of the song becomes sparse and desolate. All we feel is the sexual tension; look, but don’t touch. “Better show me what you got.”
Through all the teasing taunts and beckoning cat-calls, it is the Cat here that controls the vibe. Slinky, sensual and ready to pounce, lead vocalist Hayden Thorpe is menacing over the instrumentation as he looks for more. The album was produced by John Congleton in Dallas, Texas; Congleton has also worked on records for Blondie, St. Vincent and many, many more. He helped Wild Beasts to produce a gnarly, more raw sound for their fifth studio album, something more aggressive than what they’ve recorded in the past.
Critics of the album noted how ironic it is that toxic masculinity is being studied and “critiqued” while the music exemplifies traditionally masculine, toxic ideals (leather jackets and cigarettes, we’ll call them). While the songs do espouse these ideals, they study a vibe that is more diminutive: the Cat that’s the subject is the singer, not the listener, and that gives the listener the control.
