Wild Beasts

Thu., Feb. 25, 9 p.m., $10, with Still Life Still, Johnny Brenda's, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684, johnnybrendas.com.

by K. Ross Hoffman

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Published: Feb 24, 2010

rock/art-pop

It's not too often that you hear something genuinely, joltingly unexpected on an indie rock record these days, but the moment that comes three minutes into these vibrantly theatrical Brits' sophomore outing, Two Dancers — when Hayden Thorpe declares "This is a booty call!" in a quavering, quasi-operatic falsetto warble somewhere roughly between Kate Bush and John Cleese — definitely qualifies. It's about the silliest thing imaginable, but he makes it sound almost stately, and that's the sort of wildness we're dealing with here: more outlandish than savage, but sublimely strange nevertheless.

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