The Last Dinner Party are about to bring us their second studio album From The Pyre and we’re all here for it.
Dropping on October 17, The Last Dinner Party’s second album From the Pyre is about to take us on a whole new journey. Having earned two BRIT awards, as well as selling out virtually every show they play globally, The Last Dinner Party is one of the most exciting bands coming out of Great Britain to date. With their incredible success story unfolding right in front of our eyes, this is only the beginning. Ahead of the release of their second LP, the band treated us to preview songs such as “This Is The Killer Speaking” and “The Scythe.“
“This Is The Killer Speaking” sonically takes us right into the heart of a Western setting. It appears to tell the story of a possibly violent relationship gone bad and the resulting path of vengeance. The song jumps between slower, narration-heavy sections and a high-octane part, inviting us to get up and dance along.
The music video which dropped alongside the song, follows a bounty hunter on a mission to find a mysterious centaur-woman. It jumps between the streets of a town with a Western flair and what appears to be a modern saloon. It is here that the video teases the upcoming album From The Pyre on the depicted stage.
Watch the official music video to “This Is The Killer Speaking” below
About the new album the band share,
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 second track TLDP brought us in advance, “The Scythe,” is a deeply introspective meditation on life, death and what comes after. It utilizes the symbolism of the scythe and how it makes “limbs disconnect” as a metaphor for mortality. However, it also emphasizes the eternal connection between people that goes beyond the physical realm. The song looks at death from a perspective of a liminal state, rather than an ending and love as a cyclical force that overcomes even it.
On the story of how “The Scythe” came to be, Abigail Morris tells us,
This song began 9 years ago, like a prophecy. I wrote it before I had known anything of grief or heartbreak, how a relationship ending feels exactly the same as that person dying. Once you know how it feels to lose someone you enter a new realm from which you can never return. You’re trying to reach them telepathically through psychics or song lyrics (sometimes those two become the same) and sometimes they give you a reply. It can take 9 years to realise you’re even grieving at all but once you do you see them everywhere – in a robin, in a street fox, in a Wim Wenders film. The Scythe comes for everyone and you shouldn’t be afraid about what’s on the other side.
The music video follows an older gentleman who recently lost his wife on is journey to retrace the final places he’s been with her. It shows him in his car on the side of the road, in a field, in bed, at the gas station and other places, showing the man reliving these moments with his wife, wishing she was with him.
The music video for ‘The Scythe’ is one of our proudest and most intimate. From one angle it’s a celebration of all the relationships that make it so far you both feel like you can live forever, from another it’s the fantasy of imagining what it would look like if your parents had been able to grow old together.
Watch the official music video to “The Scythe” below
About the songs on the new album TLDP explain,
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.
With all these tasty little previews, insights and sneak peeks it’s safe to say that From The Pyre is going to be another groundbreaking milestone for The Last Dinner Party. We are excited to come along on this next step on their journey, watching TLDP make waves in the music landscape.
Ready for From The Pyre? Hungry for more The Last Dinner Party? Don’t miss out on their UK/EU tour kicking off on October 15 in Kingston, UK.