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Tom Fleming and Hayden Thorpe
Wild Beasts and the New Vorticists
Our good friend the gentle giant Nick Scott (sleeve designer for Limbo, Panto) first brought the Blast journal to our attention for stylistic reasons. Our eyes fell from their sockets and on to the page. The brash and fragmented mediums brought together by the Vorticists suited our brash and fragmented collection of ten songs, like ten fingers fit into a pair of gloves. We are so much alike, both being English avant-garde cubist futurists who are not, and will never be, victims of traditionalism, caring, as we do, far too much for the cause to worry a great deal for the consequence. Finally we have a short-hand description of Wild Beasts. Although, let me assure you that the natural correlations between the Vorticist approach and Wild Beasts’ own approach have, up to this point, been purely by exquisite chance.
As with any grand manifesto, especially an avant-garde one, interpretations are treated as putty to be sculpted into whatever form is most helpful to the reader. Just as certain songs may have entirely different meanings to vastly different people, yet are cherished equally, manifestos are a rally cry to those of like mind who see their own sense in the words. For this reason I make no apologies for manipulating the Vorticists’ manifesto for Wild Beasts’ own use.
– The rest of this article is printed in Loops Issue 01, available to buy from these Stockists.
As with any grand manifesto, especially an avant-garde one, interpretations are treated as putty to be sculpted into whatever form is most helpful to the reader. Just as certain songs may have entirely different meanings to vastly different people, yet are cherished equally, manifestos are a rally cry to those of like mind who see their own sense in the words. For this reason I make no apologies for manipulating the Vorticists’ manifesto for Wild Beasts’ own use.
– The rest of this article is printed in Loops Issue 01, available to buy from these Stockists.
