Wild Beasts have shared the video for “Alpha Femaile,” one of the standout tracks from last year’s Boy King. The visually striking clip was directed by Sasha Rainbow and filmed in Bangalore, India, a location that adds a lot of colorful production value to things. Says singer Hayden Thorpe:
Sasha told me that in India time has a different quality, it slows down when you move through it as if made of thicker stuff. The skateboarding girls and women in Alpha Female appear to have found a sublime vehicle for slicing through time more quickly. They are in a hurry, speeding time up, pulling their generation along. Alpha Female is a tale of showing yourself, of pushing off the earth to gather momentum, of leaning into resistance and meeting it with bravery and composure. Don’t we all seek the exhilaration of showing ourselves to the world? And when we do show ourselves isn’t it obvious how much we are made of an exquisite clutter of strengths and fragilities undefinable by gender?
Watch the video below.
The band will be spending the summer on the festival circuit, so far all announced dates are in Europe, and those are listed below.
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Wild Beasts – 2017 Tour Dates
Saturday 29 April – Live At Leeds Festival, Leeds
Sunday 30 April – FestEVOL, Liverpool
Monday 1 May – Summerhall, Edinburgh
Saturday 3 June – Primavera Sound, Barcelona
Friday 7 July – NOS Alive, Lisbon
Saturday 12 August – Boardmasters Festival, Cornwall