The Last Dinner Party Announce Sophomore Album ‘From The Pyre’
The group have shared the record’s lead single, ‘This Is The Killer Speaking.’
The Last Dinner Party have announced their sophomore record, From The Pyre. The U.K. five-piece have also shared the album’s first single, “This Is The Killer Speaking” and its accompanying music video. The new record, the follow-up to their 2024 debut Prelude To Ecstasy, will be released on October 17th via Island Records.
In a statement, the band shared: “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 at an opulent table. It also feels metatextual and cheeky in places, like a knowing look reflected back at ourselves.”
The lead single, “This Is The Killer Speaking,” evokes both the Western and mythological influences the group noted. The cinematic music video features guitarist Lizzie Mayland as a cowboy, hunting down lead singer Abigail Morris as a centaur. Morris sings: “I’m down so bad I’m doing time / You look like a weeping saint / With your infected eye.”
The group began work on the record earlier this year with Markus Dravs (Wolf Alice, Florence & The Machine). Their debut album, Prelude to Ecstasy, topped the Official U.K. Albums Chart upon release and gained the biggest opening week for a debut album by a British band since 2015.
