by Andrew Trendell Staff | Photos by WENN

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Wild Beasts get funky on new song, announce new album + tour

Check out the brilliant 'Get My Bang' from Boy King

 

Wild Beasts new album Boy King and song Get My Bang announced - tour Photo: WENN

Wild Beasts are back, and sounding incredible - check out their huge new single 'Get My Bang' from their upcoming new album Boy King along with details of their upcoming tour dates below. 

"After five records there had to be an element of 'what the fuck?,'" says Hayden Thorpe of the upcoming Boy King - and he's not wrong, with 'Get My Bang' proving to be yet another immaculate evolution and staggering departure for the band. 

Gone are the indie idiosyncrasies that you once knew them for, replaced by a Justin Timberlake danceability met with the playful fun of Metronomy and a Nine Inch Nails industrial synth menace. It's all kinds of brilliant.  

Boy King will be released on 5 August. 

Wild Beasts' upcoming UK and EU tour dates are below, with tickets to their newly announced October shows* on sale from 9am on Friday 27 May and available here

Wild Beasts will play:
Sat 18 Jun 2016 Spain, MadCool Festival
Tue 26 Jul 2016 UK, Leeds Brudenell Social Club
Weds 27 July 2016 UK, Leeds Brudenell Social Club
Thu 28 Jul 2016 UK, Brighton Hove Old Market
Fri 29 Jul 2016 UK, Brighton Hove Old Market
Thu 18 Aug 2016 UK, Green Man Festival
Fri 26 Aug 2016 UK, UK Electric Fields
Sat 27 Aug 2016 Finland, Helsinki Modern Sky Festival
Fri 02 Sep 2016 Netherlands, Into The Great Wide Open
Sun 04 Sep 2016 Ireland Electric Picnic
Sat 24 Sep 2016 Germany, Reeperbahn Festival
Wed 28 Sep 2016 UK, Bristol Motion
Thu 29 Sep 2016 UK, Oxford O2 Academy Oxford
Fri 30 Sep 2016 UK, Margate By The Sea Festival
Sat 01 Oct 2016 UK, Sheffield The Foundry*
Mon 03 Oct 2016 UK, Cambridge The Junction*
Tue 04 Oct 2016 UK, London The Roundhouse*
Fri 07 Oct 2016 UK, Newcastle Northumbria Uni*
Sat 08 Oct 2016 UK, Glasgow QMU*
Sun 09 Oct 2016 UK, Manchester Academy*
Wed 12 Oct 2016 Belgium, Brussels Botanique Orangeries*
Thu 13 Oct 2016 France, Paris La Gaîté Lyrique*
Fri 14 Oct 2016 France, Tourcoing Le Grand Mix*
Sat 15 Oct 2016 France, Strasbourg La Laiterie*
Sun 16 Oct 2016 Germany, Cologne Luxor*
Tue 18 Oct 2016 Denmark, Copenhagen Pumpehuset*
Thu 20 Oct 2016 Germany, Berlin Kesselhaus*
Fri 21 Oct 2016 Czech Republic, Prague Lucerna Music Bar*
Sun 23 Oct 2016 Switzerland, Zurich, Rote Fabrik*
Tue 25 Oct 2016 Italy, Milan, Magnolia*
Wed 26 Oct 2016 France, Lyon Epicure Moderne*
Sat 29 Oct 2016 Spain, Bilbao BIME*

Below: 16 exclusive photos of Wild Beasts stunning Brixton Academy


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