Last Night All My Dreams Came True
Live album by
Released16 February 2018 (2018-02-16)
StudioRAK Studios
Length52:29
LabelDomino
Wild Beasts chronology
Punk Drunk & Trembling
(2017)
Last Night All My Dreams Came True
(2018)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic73/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Dork[3]
The Independent[4]
The Line of Best Fit7.5/10[5]
The Observer[6]

Last Night All My Dreams Came True is a live album by British indie rock band Wild Beasts. It was released 16 February 2018, under Domino Recording Company.[5]

Production

The album was recorded live over a two-day period at RAK Studios.[7]

Critical reception

Last Night All My Dreams Came True was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 73, based on 12 reviews.[1] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 72 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 9 reviews.[8]

Andy Gill from The Independent wrote: "It's a burly collection, with the band's flanged guitars and proggy synths asserting their refusal to follow any set style, and Hayden Thorpe's bristling vocals similarly stretching indie constraints; but when the only "new" track is jerry-rigged together from two old tracks, it all seems a bit unnecessary."[4] Steven Loftin from The Line of Best Fit praised the vocals from the album, by saying: "The vocals of Hayden Thorpe and Tom Fleming, entwining with their falsetto and baritone beauty respectively, have always been impeccable in a live setting, and it's great to hear this forever immortalised as they run through key cuts from their back catalogue here."[5] Phil Mongredien from The Observer stated: "It's unfortunate that [the album] draws rather so heavily on material from 2016's Boy King, the first Wild Beasts album on which memorable moments were in short supply. It all adds up to a slightly anticlimactic exit for a great band."[6]

Track listing

Last Night All My Dreams Came True track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Wanderlust"4:52
2."Big Cat"3:19
3."A Simple Beautiful Truth"2:28
4."2BU"4:22
5."Bed of Nails"4:08
6."Hooting & Howling"4:38
7."This Is Our Lot"4:25
8."He the Colossus"4:23
9."The Devil's Palace"3:43
10."Alpha Female"3:46
11."Get My Bang"3:34
12."All the King's Men"3:59
13."Celestial Creatures"4:54

Charts

Chart performance for Last Night All My Dreams Came True
Chart (2018) Peak
position
Scottish Albums (OCC)[9] 81
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[10] 12

References

  1. 1 2 "Metacritic Review". Metacritic. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  2. Phares, Heather. "AllMusic Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  3. Williams, Jennessa (14 February 2018). "Dork Magazine Review". Dork. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  4. 1 2 Gill, Andy (15 February 2018). "The Independent Review". The Independent. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  5. 1 2 3 Loftin, Steven (9 February 2018). "Wild Beasts' throw a farewell party live in the studio". The Line of Best Fit. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  6. 1 2 Mongredien, Phil (18 February 2018). "Wild Beasts: Last Night All My Dreams Came True review – an anticlimactic exit". The Guardian. The Observer. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  7. Day, Laurence (6 December 2017). "Wild Beasts announce new album Last Night All My Dreams Came True". The Line of Best Fit. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  8. "Album of the Year Review". Album of the Year. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  9. "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  10. "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
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