The Last Dinner Party have announced their second album, From the Pyre. The follow-up to 2023’s Prelude to Ecstasy will be out October 17 via Island Records. The first single, ‘This Is The Killer Speaking’, is as stately and theatrical as anything on their debut, but ramps up in classic rock n’ roll fashion as Abigail Morris sings from the killer’s POV. Check it out below, and scroll down for the album cover and tracklist.
“This record is a collection of stories, and the concept of album-as-mythos binds them,” the band shared.” ‘The Pyre’ itself is an allegorical place in which these tales originate, a place of violence and destruction but also regeneration, passion and light.” They continued:
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.
From the Pyre Cover Artwork:
From the Pyre Tracklist:
1. Agnus Dei
2. Count The Ways
3. Second Best
4. This Is The Killer Speaking
5. Rifle
6. Woman Is A Tre
7. I Hold Your Anger
8. Sail Away
9. The Scythe
10. Inferno
