The Last Dinner Party are set to release their second album ‘From The Pyre’ on 17th October via Island Records. The London five-piece have also shared new single ‘This Is The Killer Speaking’.
The follow-up to their Number 1 debut album ‘Prelude to Ecstasy’ was recorded with Grammy Award-winning producer Markus Dravs, known for his work with Wolf Alice, Florence & The Machine, and Bjork. The band headed into the studio in early 2025 to begin work on the record.
Speaking about the new album, the band explain: “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.”
The band add: “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 album features ten tracks: ‘Agnus Dei’, ‘Count The Ways’, ‘Second Best’, ‘This Is The Killer Speaking’, ‘Rifle’, ‘Woman Is A Tree’, ‘Hold Your Anger’, ‘Sail Away’, ‘The Scythe’, and ‘Inferno’.
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