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Wild Beasts get grizzly with ‘Tough Guy’
Hear another pulsating track from ‘Boy King’.

Wild Beasts have shared another no-prisoners track from new album ‘Boy King’.
‘Tough Guy’ is today’s World Record on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 show. Produced by John Congleton, it’s a saw-toothed, pent up glimpse of what to expect from the group’s fifth album, out 5th August.
The new song links up with ‘Celestial Creatures,’ ‘Big Cat’ and ‘Get My Bang’ in previewing the record.
Wild Beasts will headline Green Man festival in Wales next month, before touring the UK later in the year, in a run which includes two nights at London’s Roundhouse.
SEPTEMBER
28 Bristol, Motion
29 Oxford, O2 Academy
30 Margate, By The Sea Festival
OCTOBER
01 Sheffield, The Foundry
03 Cambridge, The Junction
04 London, The Roundhouse
05 London, The Roundhouse
07 Newcastle, Northumbria Uni
08 Glasgow, QMU
09 Manchester, Academy
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