The Last Dinner Party's Second Album "From the Pyre" OUT OCTOBER 17

The Last Dinner Party's Second Album "From the Pyre" OUT OCTOBER 17

THE LAST DINNER PARTY ANNOUNCE

THEIR NEW ALBUM FROM THE PYRE

OUT OCTOBER 17TH VIA ISLAND RECORDS

SHARE NEW SINGLE

THIS IS THE KILLER SPEAKING

Today, The Last Dinner Party announce From The Pyretheir second studio album which will be released on the October 17th via Island Records. The band also share the album’s first single, “This Is The Killer Speaking. Watch the video here and listen to the track here. The Last Dinner Party’s From The Pyre is available to preorder on all formats here

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. Tickets for all dates are available here.

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. 

 

From The Pyre Album Track listing: 

1.        Agnus Dei 

2.        Count The Ways

3.        Second Best 

4.        This Is The Killer Speaking 

5.        Rifle 

6.        Woman Is A Tree 

7.        I Hold Your Anger 

8.        Sail Away 

9.        The Scythe 

10.   Inferno


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