- 2025-09-05
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MUSIC
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The Last Dinner Party Releases New Song “The Scythe”
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), released a new song “The Scythe” on September 5, 2025.
The song is the second single off of their upcoming sophomore album “From The Pyre”, which is set to be released on October 17, 2025 via Island Records.
As with the previous song “This is the Killer Speaking”, the track was written by Abigail Morris, Aurora Nishevci, Casper Miles, Emily Roberts, Georgia Davies, and Lizzie Mayland, and produced by Markus Dravs.
The accompanying music video was directed by Fiona Jane Burgess, starring Richard Durden and Eileen Nicholas.
The band said of the song, “This song began 9 years ago, like a prophecy. 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.”- They said of the video, “The music video for The Scythe is one of our proudest and most intimate. 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. We had the honour of working with director Fiona Jane Burgess. As soon as she responded to our brief we knew that no one else could make the video like she could. She had the most tender and sacred vision for this story and it’s turned out even more beautiful than we could imagine. The Scythe wouldn’t be the same without our two lead actors Richard Durden and Eileen Nicholas, who brought such grace and poignancy to the screen and we are so honoured that they were the ones to bring this love story to life. Thank you to everyone who worked on The Scythe, you have our endless awe and gratitude.”
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The new album comprises 10 tracks, produced by Markus Dravs. It is their first album in over a year since the 2024 debut album “Prelude to Ecstasy”.
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.” - source : Apple Music
