The Last Dinner Party’s new album, From the Pyre, 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. 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.
Note: The LP is initially available in a neon-vinyl ‘inferno’ edition, exclusive to independent shops.
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