"With their muted electronic beats and rousing, arena-friendly choruses, Bastille are the archetypal modern pop band ... the best track, The Currents, rails against Farage and Trump, its venomous riff compensating for the mundane words ("I can't believe the scary points you make"). Elsewhere, though, for all the "woah-oh-oh"s and snippets of dialogue from 1980s films, Wild World is too wholesome to generate real thrills".