The Last Dinner Party – From The Pyre
Today, The Last Dinner Party announce From The Pyre, their second studio album, which will be released on October 17th via Island Records.
The band also share the album’s first single, “This Is The Killer Speaking”.
The band share about their new album:
“This record is a collection of stories, and the concept of album-as-mythos binds them. ‘The Pyre’ itself is an allegorical place in which these tales originate, a place of violence and destruction but also regeneration, passion and light.
“The songs are character driven but still deeply personal, a commonplace life event pushed to pathological extreme. Being ghosted becomes a Western dance with a killer, and heartbreak laughs into the face of the apocalypse. Lyrics invoke rifles, scythes, sailors, saints, cowboys, floods, Mother Earth, Joan of Arc, and blazing infernos. We found this kind of evocative imagery to be the most honest and truthful way to discuss the way our experiences felt, giving each the emotional weight it deserves.”
“This record feels a little darker, more raw and more earthy; it takes place looking out at a sublime landscape rather than seated an opulent table. It also feels metatextual and cheeky in places, like a knowing look reflected back at ourselves.”
The Last Dinner Party will perform at Connecticut’s Soundside Festival, as well as both NYC and Washington DC editions of All Things Go Festival.
For From The Pyre, the London five-piece – consisting of Abigail Morris (vocals), Lizzie Mayland (vocals, guitar), Emily Roberts (lead guitar, mandolin, flute), Georgia Davies (bass) and Aurora Nishevci (keyboards, vocals)— headed into the studio early 2025 with Grammy Award winning producer Markus Dravs (Wolf Alice, Florence & The Machine, Bjork) to start work on the follow-up to their number 1 debut album, 2023’s Prelude to Ecstasy. From The Pyre is the sound of a band having a lot of fun rather than feeling any innate pressure to follow-up on what was an explosively successful debut record. It’s also the sound of a young band developing and maturing their songwriting together, as tight a unit as the endless months out on the road pay testament to.
With two BRIT Awards to their name (including Breakthrough Artist earlier this year), and having sold out virtually every show they played right across the globe (including three sold-out hometown shows at London’s Eventim Apollo), The Last Dinner Party’s arrival and subsequent worldwide success was one of the most thrilling introductions to a new British band in decades, and From The Pyre’s opening introduction suggests that unparalleled success story shows no signs of relenting.
Tour Dates:
Jul 18 Lollapalooza Paris Paris, France
Jul 26 Truck Festival Oxfordshire, UK
Jul 27 Tramlines Sheffield, UK
Aug 2 Y Not Festival Pikehall, Derbyshire, UK
Aug 3 Kendal Calling Penrith, UK
Aug 11 Sziget Festival Budapest, Hungary
Aug 15 MS Dockville Hamburg, Germany
Aug 16 Pukkelpop Hasselt, Belgium
Aug 17 Cabaret Vert Charleville-Mézières, France
Aug 23 Victorious Festival Portsmouth, UK
Aug 24 FORWARDS Bristol, UK
Sep 26 All Things Go Washington, DC, USA
Sep 27 Soundside Music Festival Bridgeport, CT, USA
Sep 28 All Things Go Forest Hills, NY, USA
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