“As he signed off Wild Beasts' last album, 2014's Present Tense, Hayden Thorpe sounded at peace, or at least reconciled to finding it. “Baby there's have-alls and there are have-nots/I'm happy with what I got,” he cooed on “Palace,” concluding, “We may be savage and raw but at the core we've higher needs.” After the emotional ruins of Smother, you were happy for him, even if the prospect of the sha”
