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Album Review: Wild Beasts - 'Smother'

By drawing out the dark side of sex, the band have made a masterpiece

In 1993, journalist Auberon Waugh established the Bad Sex In Fiction Award while editor of London’s distinguished Literary Review . It was intended to draw attention to what he called the “crude, tasteless and often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in contemporary novels, and to discourage it”. Last year’s winner, Rowan Somerville (key line: “like a...

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The band will play their 2011 album 'Smother' this week in London and at ATP festival

Wild Beasts to play 'Smother' in full in London

Tickets will be released by ballot for the intimate London gig in December