{"id":270094,"date":"2025-07-17T19:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/270094\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T19:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:26:12","slug":"the-last-dinner-party-announce-sophomore-album-from-the-pyre-with-new-single-this-is-the-killer-speaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/270094\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Dinner Party announce sophomore album \u2018From The Pyre\u2019 with new single \u2018This Is The Killer Speaking\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Last Dinner Party<\/a> are back, announcing details of their second album, \u2018From The Pyre\u2019. Check out the lead single \u2018This Is The Killer Speaking\u2019 below.<\/p>\n

The upcoming album follows on from the critically acclaimed debut LP, \u2018Prelude to Ecstasy<\/a>\u2019, which arrived in 2023 and saw the band go on to win two BRIT Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Set to arrive on October 17 via Island Records, the new LP follows the London five-piece as they push their songwriting into more developed and mature new avenues, and turn their focus to enjoying the process, rather than getting lost in the pressure to follow-up their explosive debut. Visit here to pre-order<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Work on the album picked up momentum in early 2025, when the members headed into the studio and began recording alongside Grammy<\/a> Award-winning producer Markus Dravs, who has previously teamed up with huge names like Wolf Alice<\/a>, Florence + The Machine<\/a>, and Bj\u00f6rk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThis record is a collection of stories, and the concept of album-as-mythos binds them,\u201d the band have explained. \u201c\u2018The Pyre\u2019 itself is an allegorical place in which these tales originate, a place of violence and destruction but also regeneration, passion and light.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

They continued: \u201cLyrics 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

To celebrate the announcement of the new album, singer Abigail Morris and co. have shared the new song \u2018This Is The Killer Speaking\u2019 \u2013 capturing the essence of the new LP and offering a preview of what is to come. Check it out above, and find the tracklisting and album artwork below.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Last Dinner Party \u2018The Pyre\u2019 album artwork. CREDIT: Press<\/p>\n

The \u2018From The Pyre\u2019 tracklist is:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Agnus Dei\u2019<\/strong>
\u2018Count The Ways\u2019<\/strong>
\u2018Second Best\u2019<\/strong>
\u2018This Is The Killer Speaking\u2019 <\/strong>
\u2018Rifle\u2019<\/strong>
\u2018Woman Is A Tree\u2019<\/strong>
\u2018Hold Your Anger\u2019 <\/strong>
\u2018Sail Away\u2019<\/strong>
\u2018The Scythe\u2019<\/strong>
\u2018Inferno\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Lizzie Mayland \u2013 now going by L.Mayland \u2013 told NME about what fans can expect<\/a> from upcoming Last Dinner Party music, saying that their latest run of material is inspired by \u201cdarker themes\u201d and \u201cprocessing heavier emotions\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI wrote a new song for [my solo] live shows, which is a bit more directly political and angry\u2026 and funnily enough, the upcoming album with the band is also quite angry at the world too,\u201d they said, telling us about their debut solo EP \u2018The Slow Fire Of Sleep\u2019.<\/a> \u201cWe\u2019re writing in direct response to what\u2019s happening around us, and honesty is always important for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a pretty dark time, so I think that is reflected in the music because we\u2019re in touch with the world,\u201d Lizzie Mayland added. \u201cIt\u2019s not all sad, though; there are some bops as well! It\u2019s not all downbeat either \u2013 they\u2019re fun, angry songs. I won\u2019t go into too much detail, though; you\u2019ll have to wait and see.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

When it was first shared, NME gave \u2018Prelude To Ecstasy\u2019 a glowing four-star review<\/a>, and praised the band as capturing \u201cenough self-belief and magnetism to set them apart from what\u2019s come before.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSome may choose to posit the band\u2019s success as an antidote to the intense scrutiny \u2013 about their rise, appearance and decision to make music without a \u2018serious\u2019 intention \u2013 they\u2019ve received in their early career,\u201d it read. \u201cBut take all of that away, and you\u2019re still left with fantastic songs that are easy to embrace and return to. It\u2019s hard to miss all the things they\u2019re doing right.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the debut album, the former NME Cover stars<\/a>\u00a0scored the biggest Number One debut album in nearly a decade<\/a> and also earned a Mercury Prize nomination<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While at the BRITS 2025<\/a> this year, where they took home the award for Best New Artist, the band also dropped some hints to NME about the upcoming album<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully new music [is coming soon],\u201d said Morris. \u201cWe\u2019re working on it at the moment and it feels really good to be creating again after touring again for so long.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued: \u201cWe\u2019re approaching the second album the same way we approached the first album, which is by doing what we want to do without any pressures or expectations. Obviously, there is a little bit of anxiety about the sophomore thing, but we\u2019re just sticking to what we want to do. It\u2019s about doing what feels right for now.\u201d You can watch that interview in full via the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Last Dinner Party are back, announcing details of their second album, \u2018From The Pyre\u2019. Check out the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[38443,77,481,269,453,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-270094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-alternative","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-indie","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-rock","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114870222349441195","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}