In a recent chat, Gofton explained the process behind the Wild Beasts album design, and how it needed to work across various other album campaign elements to fully express Present Tense's themes of "sex, death, birth, memory, betrayal, money, love and inheritance".
The group's wild new album is "... Burn, Piano Island, Burn" (Artist Direct/BMG).
The spontaneity and intensity of the performances on the "Wild Style" album may put off some listeners.
And yet, despite the stillness, this is a wild, passionate album -- loves and lovers die, not always by accident.
"It had an energy of its own and a feel of its own," says Ant, currently on tour playing the Kings of the Wild Frontier album.
All four women laughed ruefully about the practice space they'd used in Portland to record the Wild Flag album — a cramped, windowless room packed with musical equipment.
The electronic backings won adherents in the discos and dance clubs, but the "Wild Style" album captures hip-hop in its original setting, enabling the casual listener to experience something of the neighborhood vitality that attracted people like the film maker Charlie Ahearn in the first place.
It's the kind of flashback the brothers have been experiencing for months now, since "Dreamin' Wild," the album they recorded here and released themselves in 1979 as Donnie and Joe Emerson, has become an out-of-the-blue cult hit, rescued from obscurity by a music blogger.
By new year – when its follow-up, Antmusic, was released and the Kings of the Wild Frontier album deposed Abba's Super Trouper from the top of the charts – Adam and the Ants were unequivocally the biggest pop band in the UK, a position they would occupy for the next 18 months (at one dizzying juncture in 1981, they had seven singles in the Top 40 at once).
But I haven't been able to give the Wild Nothing album a break recently.
And of course, she was sporting a super glitzy manicure in Wet n' Wild Gold Album nail lacquer with Glamorous gold glitter on top.
