Limbo, Panto is the debut album by Wild Beasts.

A cursory glance at the record's tracklisting: Vigil For A Fuddy Duddy, The Old Dog, Cheerio Chaps, will quickly inform you of the band's distinct personality. The title alone gives notice that, like Alice falling down the rabbit hole, as soon as you press play you are leaving the workaday world of skinny jeans and third-from-the-top-of-the-bill-festival-chorus-structures and entering a new, quite strange and highly individual environment. One listen to the record will leave you confounded, enchanted, perhaps confused. One thing is certain; you won't hear a record or a band like this at any other time this year.

Limbo. Panto is a fairground ride through these young men's giddy perspective.
It includes words and phrases like conundrum, brylcreem, 'win the big match' and 'casual sex with a hard up thug'. Singer Hayden Thorpe's voice veers between...