Wild Beasts are set to return with their third album, the follow up to 2009’s Two Dancers, is to be entitled Smother and is set for release in May. Written in East London and recorded in Snowdonia, Wales last year, it saw the band teaming up with regular producer Richard Formby. Last year front man Tom Fleming told the NME that the new long player had seen the band “spread our wings”.

He further suggested: “The songs are more concise and direct than they’ve ever been, I think we’ve done that stuff better than ever before.” The track listing runs:

‘Lion’s Share’
‘Bed Of Nails’
‘Deeper’
‘Loop The Loop’
‘Plaything’
‘Invisible’
‘Albatross’
‘Reach A Bit Further’
‘Burning’
‘End Come Too Soon’

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