Super hot Pitchfork fave with an 8.4 on their 2nd record. "Wild Beasts certainly aren't the first rock band to stand up society's dregs and outcasts, but few others immortalize them on such a wondrous, mythic scale. And in the grand "This Is Our Lot"-- the sort of song everyone wants Radiohead's perpetually imminent "return to rock" to sound like-- we quite literally have an anthem for the ages. Over top a rubbery bassline and shimmering guitar riff, Thorpe tips his tipple to the enduring passion of youth"

Descriptors come up short with Still Life Still. This is a band whose primary musical influence is each other; before their parents bought them instruments at age 13, they were beating on tin cans and making guitar noises with their mouths. By their own admission, they were raised on mainstream rock videos—any of their indie rock/ambient/experimental aspects they arrived at entirely on their own. Both inside the band and in their newly discovered group of peers at Elvis Mondays (Spiral Beach, Boxes and Bags, Dinosaur Bones, La Casa Muerte, The Miles, Donlands and Mortimer), music is a social element. For a group of friends who first met as soccer rivals in 1st Grade, their musical bond is an extension of the brotherly camaraderie they share in everything they do.