Wild Beasts: A 'Beautiful Truth' In A Beautiful Bar — npr.org

You can be 10 feet from The Campbell Apartment, a bar tucked into the corner of New York's Grand Central Station, and not have any idea it's there. The office of a member of the New York Central Railroad's Board Of Directors in the 1920s (and later a storage closet and a jail), the room is intimate in spite of its 25-foot ceilings and the enormous leaded-glass window that faces Vanderbilt Avenue. For the decade it's been making music, the English band Wild Beasts has been touched by a similar antiqueness. It's not retro; more like a feeling that some element of the band's sound — from the street-urchin-inspired lyrics of its early songs to the new-wave synths woven through its latest album, Present Tense — arrived fully intact via time machine.

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