Boy King (studio album) by Wild Beasts

Boy King by Wild Beasts
Year: 2016
Release date: 2016-08-05
Overall rank: 17,583rd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 30 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2016 (398th)
Award Top albums of the 2010s (3,911th)
Award Best albums of all time (17,583rd)
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Wild Beasts bestography

Boy King is ranked 5th best out of 6 albums by Wild Beasts on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Wild Beasts is Two Dancers which is ranked number 2826 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 544.

Wild Beasts album bestography « Higher ranked (13,058th) This album (17,583rd) Lower ranked (128,130th) »
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70/100 (from 30 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.5/100, a mean average of 69.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 9.7.

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From 12/10/2020 15:47
There are a few brilliant moments on here and if you listen to the bonus track "Boy King Trash" you will hear that they weren't in lack of ideas, so it's a shame this album turned out so underwhelming. I know the band were in the process of breaking up at the time of putting this one out so maybe that contributed to this concept being a bit of a swing and a miss. Definitely worth a listen but probably the poorest execution of any Wild Beasts' album.
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From 11/03/2016 03:29
This is a good album, just has some weak tracks that let the whole thing down (Boy King Trash especially), it is an album quite similar to Arctic Monkeys AM due to it's focuse and constant re-use of the slow drum beat. Got some good songs (Ponytail) and some crap, not a terrible album.
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From 08/09/2016 23:28
A kind of cross between the, smother, and, present tense, albums. It's good, but maybe they are starting to run out of ideas. Need to put the electronic instruments away for a bit. Still, it is Wild beasts, so all is not lost, and it always takes ages for their albums to peak, so who knows? In a few months it may be my favourite Wild beasts album. Not yet though.
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From 07/30/2016 10:34
Some songs are smelling like a sell out (poppy 'Get My Bang' and 'Tough Guy'), but the overall quality disproves that. Sometimes sounding like other bands (Muse on several tracks, Perfume Genius on 'Dreamliner'), this is a really different shift in sound. Not as good as their previous effort, the album has it's flaws, but the overall impression in positive. Even long time fans like myself will find something to like on this album.
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