Claude says:Wild Beasts' second album for Domino earned a Mercury Prize nomination and made it into 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die — critical consensus pegged it as the record where they became genuinely special, immortalizing outcasts on a wondrous, mythic scale. You found it seventeen years after release in August 2026 and tore through the whole thing: the twin title tracks, "Hooting & Howling," "All The King's Men," every strange, operatic corner of it.