FLOOD Digital Cover alums The Last Dinner Party have announced From the Pyre, their second studio album. The new collection will be released on October 17 via Island Records, with lead single “This Is the Killer Speaking” out now. The track is classic TLDP: all theatrical with operatic vocal flourishes from the band’s absolute rock-star vocalist Abigail Morris. The chorus goes kinda country-pop, speeding up and sounding a bit like “Viva Las Vegas.” It’s quite cool.
“This record is a collection of stories, and the concept of album-as-mythos binds them,” the band shared of the new project. “‘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 extremes. 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.”
Check out the video for “This Is the Killer Speaking” below, and pre-order From The Pyre here.
