Their debut single, Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants backed with The Old Dog was released on Bad Sneakers Records on 20th November 2006. Their second single Through Dark Night backed with Please, Sir was released 23rd April as their last single on Bad Sneakers. In February 2007 the band signed to Domino Records. A debut album Limbo, Panto was released in the UK on June 16 2008 with strong critical endorsement. Their second album, Two Dancers, was released on 3 August 2009 to widespread critical acclaim, receiving 9/10 reviews from NME and Drowned in Sound. It was also ranked at #41 on NME's top 100 albums of the decade. Their third album, Smother was released on May 9, 2011.
The four boys of Wild Beasts aren’t concerned with being of the modern or being of the renaissance, being baggy pantsed or being tight pantsed, being in a scene or being in a place. Wild Beasts’ music just is.
On 25 September 2017, the band announced that they were disbanding, playing their final gig on 17 February 2018.
Loop the Loop
Wild Beasts Lyrics
Jump to: Overall Meaning ↴ Line by Line Meaning ↴
That people are the strangest things.
Design of desire
Means all that the heart requires
Is what it can't recognize.
Oh no, hm
That people are the hardest things.
Design of desire
Means all that the heart requires
Is what it can't compromise.
Oh no
Oh, oh, oh, oh
I've made enough enemies.
No I've made enough enemies.
Forget now
How many must I
Forget now
How many must I
Forget now
How many must I forget?
Remember
As many as I
Remember
As many as I
Remember
I must forget.
Regret now
How many do I
Regret now
How many do I
Regret now
How many do I
Regret?
Slender
Oh there is so many
Slender
Oh there is so many
Slender
Oh there is so many
Slender songs I regret.
Oh don't you think
That people are the strangest things
Design of desire
Means all that the heart requires
Is what it can't sympathize.
The lyrics to "Loop the Loop" by Wild Beasts explore the complexity of human desire and relationships. The first stanza opens with the observation that people are "strange" and "hard," suggesting the difficulty in understanding and navigating human connections. The design of desire, as mentioned in the lyrics, implies that the heart wants what it cannot have or cannot recognize. The repetition of the phrase "oh no" emphasizes the frustration of this situation.
In the second stanza, the lyrics shift to the theme of regret and forgetting. The singer has made enough enemies and must forget a certain number of them. However, they must also remember an equal number, creating a sense of ambivalence and uncertainty. The final stanza returns to the idea of desire, suggesting that the heart cannot sympathize with what it wants. The repetition of "slender" reinforces the idea that the singer has many regrets and desires that cannot be fulfilled.
Line by Line Meaning
Oh don't you think
Asks the listener to consider a thought
That people are the strangest things.
Humans have peculiar habits that are difficult to comprehend
Design of desire
Reference to the natural inclination towards wanting things
Means all that the heart requires
The heart yearns for certain things
Is what it can't recognize.
The heart wants things that it cannot identify or acknowledge
Oh don't you think
Asks the listener to consider a thought
That people are the hardest things.
People can be difficult to deal with
Design of desire
Reference to the natural inclination towards wanting things
Means all that the heart requires
The heart craves certain things
Is what it can't compromise.
The heart wants things that it cannot negotiate or modify
I've made enough enemies.
Speaker has accumulated sufficient adversaries
No I've made enough enemies.
Affirms a previous statement about having made too many enemies
Forget now
The singer implores to not remember things
How many must I
Asks how many instances of a certain thing are needed
Remember
The singer implores to recollect something
As many as I
Asks for the same quantity as a previous instance
Regret now
The artist implores to be remorseful
How many do I
Asks how many of a certain thing exist
Slender
Adjective meaning thin or slight
Oh there is so many
Refers to there being numerous examples of something
Slender songs I regret.
Songs that the artist laments for being meager or inadequate
Oh don't you think
Asks the listener to consider a thought
That people are the strangest things
Humans can display bizarre choices and behaviors
Design of desire
Reference to the natural inclination towards wanting things
Means all that the heart requires
The heart needs certain things
Is what it can't sympathize.
The heart desires things that it cannot be empathetic towards
Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
Brian McHugh
I feel so fortunate to have seen them live. This song is so texturally gorgeous. This song along with His Grinning Skull separates The Wild Beasts from so many other artists. Their trajectory from Limbo to Smother is so very satisfying. As so many others have shared, I miss them too.
Bilingual Fluency with MJ Ruiz
I miss them so much, but hearing them still soothes my soul.
Alexander Gillespie
favorite track from Smother... probably the best track i've heard all year.
sam franco
a very nice track, and a certain melancholy
_ Slack _
His voice is just so buttery smooth
Siu Wan CHAN
i miss them so bad
Cooler.
Beautiful
RecklessTheory
This is probably one of my favorite songs. Too often I find people strange. Everybody seems to be depressed and so unbelievably ignorant of the great opportunities in front of them. When you try and try to help and yet nobody seems to listen, they force you to forget them. You beg for it to be simple. lyrically this song is very personal, musically this song expresses what you want to express. It's really a masterpiece!
stcrude
good job at getting the opposite point of the song
Kassidy Aaren
Depression isn’t a strange thing my love! And the greatest thing can be in front of someone who had depression and they can still be depressed. It’s not by choice!