The Last Dinner Party have released ‘The Scythe’, the second preview of their forthcoming album From the Pyre. Following July’s ‘This Is The Killer Speaking’, the slow-burning, meditative track arrives with a music video directed by Fiona Jane Burgess. Check it out below.
“This song began 9 years ago, like a prophecy,” Abigail Morris explained in a statement. “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 for ‘The Scythe’ is one of our proudest and most intimate,” Morris added. “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.”
From The Pyre, the follow-up to 2023’s Prelude to Ecstasy, arrives October 17 via Island Records.
