Tom fleming wild beasts wanderlust

Noisey and the technology corporation Philips approached Wild Beasts recently to film a performance of their Present Tense standout "Wanderlust" in London. The catch? Instead of a standard keyboard or synth, Tom Fleming would be playing on a 7,866-pipe organ. Out of use for nearly a decade, the Royal Festival Hall's massive, 60-year-old-instrument provides the main focus for the quartet's performance. Check it out below, via Noisey.

Last week, the band shared a "GIF novel" containing two unreleased tracks, "Soft Future" and "Blood Knowledge".

Read our Update with Wild Beasts.

Watch them do "Mecca" at Pitchfork Music Festival:

For over a decade, Wild Beasts, the Kendal quartet of Benny Little, Chris Talbot, Hayden Thorpe, and Tom Fleming released a set of albums that prevailed against the currents of musical orthodoxy. Instead, the quartet created a bespoke sound world, one in which the band’s instruments and the voices of Thorpe and Fleming were given free rein to explore their lyrical themes of lust, masculinity, hedonism, and their consequences. These were universal subjects given fresh impetus and meaning with each successive Wild Beasts release, most notably on the Mercury-nominated Two Dancers. Having decided to amicably cease working together in 2017, these records can now be heard as poetic commentary on the era in which they were created, from a group with a rare talent for making distinctive music accessible and popular. 

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