Last Night All My Dreams Came True represents a signing-off and a résumé of Wild Beasts’ 15-year career. Recorded live at RAK studios over a two-day period, it documents a band at the height of their powers: lean and economical yet heady and brooding. It’s a vivid illustration of how the band has evolved from quirky indie outsiders to confident electro-rock behemoth. Their sound is dominated by monolithic slabs of synth and simple driving drum patterns, as Hayden Thorpe’s celebrated falsetto performs a balancing act with Tom Fleming’s baritone. There are occasional hints of a mid-’80s sensibility on many of the tracks, but it’s not slavish retroism. The lion’s share of tracks are culled from their penultimate album Boy King, which – while receiving polarised reviews – was arguably their most successful effort. Opener ‘Wanderlust’ sets the tone with its slobbery synth stabs and angelic chorus, while ‘He The Collusus’ is an absolute monster of a song (“The universe has us locked in a death spin/ Not enough fucking and too much wondering”). The bleak message is somewhat subverted by a camply enunciated “stick that in your piehole Ed (Ted?)”, at the end. ‘Bed Of Nails’, not an Alice Cooper cover, weds Shakespeare to Shelley and Muse to Talk Talk. ‘Alpha Female’ layers woozy bass and jittering guitar breaks over vicious distortion as Thorpe croons “Alpha female, I’ll be right behind you”. So, a self-assured snapshot of Wild Beasts and a powerful swan song. Why are they splitting up? Out February 16

Rating: 7/10