Album Review: Bastille/Wild World

Wild World is Bastille’s follow up to the excellent 2013 Bad Blood album. The album leads on well and many of the sounds would have sat just as well on the previous collection.

Good Grief The Currents An Act of Kindness Warmth Glory Power Two Evils Send Them Off! Lethargy Four Walls (The Ballad of Perry Smith) Blame Fake It Snakes Winter of Our Youth

As before, many tracks start with Dan Smith's vocals building up to heavy beat choruses. The album is peppered with the band playing with different sounds either from synths, old soundtrack or even just echo distortions. Lyrically the band may have even improved on their previous outing, with Currents and Lethargy coming over as my personal favourites. Two Evils is a much darker sound with just a guitar to back Dan’s haunting sound. It’s a lovely break from the normal Bastille sound, and acts as a gateway to several darker songs such as Four Walls (about capital punishment) and Blame (about a gang fight). Overall an excellent album and Bastille just keep getting better.