One of our absolute favorite bands, The Last Dinner Party have just announced the news for their second album. Their second album FROM THE PYRE is set to release on October 17th via Island Records. In addition to announcing the album news, they have released a new 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.”
Watch the new video here:
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. Tickets for all dates are available here.
our 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
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.
From The Pyre Album Track listing:
- Agnus Dei
- Count The Ways
- Second Best
- This Is The Killer Speaking
- Rifle
- Woman Is A Tree
- I Hold Your Anger
- Sail Away
- The Scythe
- Inferno
We can’t wait for the new album and really can’t wait for their return to the Bay Area. We caught them last year as they performed at Outside Lands. Review here. Check out some photos from their set:
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