- 2025-07-18
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MUSIC
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The Last Dinner Party Announces New Album “From The Pyre”, Premieres New Song “This is the Killer Speaking” on BBC Radio 1
British indie rock band The Last Dinner Party, consisting of Georgia Davies (bass), Lizzie Mayland (guitar), Abigail Morris (vocals), Aurora Nishevci (keyboards) and Emily Roberts (guitar), has announced their upcoming sophomore album “From The Pyre” will be released on October 17, 2025 via Island Records.
The album comprises 10 tracks, on which the band worked with Grammy Award-winning producer Markus Dravs.
From the album, the band premiered the first single “This is the Killer Speaking” on BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders.
The song is accompanied by the Harv Frost-directed music video.
It was written by Abigail Morris, Aurora Nishevci, Casper Miles, Emily Roberts, Georgia Davies, James Ford, and Lizzie Mayland. Produced by Markus Dravs.
The band told Jack Saunders about the song, “This is what happens when you ghost, someone who's in a band. So it's our take on a murder ballad. I was listening to a lot of Nick Cave and Johnny Cash when I first wrote the piano demo. And then I kind of did it as a joke. Then took it in and everyone liked it. And then we played it live for the first time last year.”- The band said of the album, “This record 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.”
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.”
They added, “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.” -
The band shared on social media, “From the Pyre, ten stories were forged. A myth weaved from the torn edges of real experiences; we cast ourself as saints and cowboys, lovers and sailors, angels and mothers and players. We've never been angrier or laughed harder, staring into its blaze. This is an album about you, too. And now you're a folk hero, immortalised through verse and riff. You're welcome ;) This is an album of the forest, of the hillside and of the cliff-face. Breathe it in.”
Photo by Laura Marie Cieplik - source : BBC Radio 1
