Singled Out: Wild Beasts' 'Loop The Loop' : NPR 
On this song your voice is very sweet, but it’s much harder in other places — almost a growl. Did it take you some time to figure out what kind of a voice you wanted to use as a singer?
HT: “For me, singing is cathartic. I get a huge sense of physical and emotional release from it and in that sense I suppose I let it be as unconscious as possible in a sense. But I think that’s fair enough. When you’re 14 or 15, you’re angry and you want to sing like Kurt Cobain. When you’re 17 and 18 you’re a bit more world-wise and you start to appreciate Jeff Buckley for his sensitivity. And then when you’re 19, 20 you start to discover the artistic possibilities of the human voice and you discover Thom Yorke and Bjork and Antony. It’s an unraveling. You’re picking threads off what you’re really trying to get at. But I think my voice is probably an amalgamation of all those sort of stages because I’ve been in this band since I was a teenager so I think all those things have sort of amounted to this.”
