The Last Dinner Party share powerful video for latest single ‘The Scythe’

Ahead of the arrival of their much-anticipated second album ‘From The Pyre’ next month (on 17th October, to be precise), theatrical art-rockers The Last Dinner Party have now offered up second single ‘The Scythe’ - a poignant account of lost love that has been shared alongside an arresting, affecting music video. 

Explaining more about the track’s origins, which date all the way back to her teenagehood, vocalist Abigail Morris has said: “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.” 

Continuing, she notes that “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.”

The visualiser for ‘The Scythe’ - which spotlights the special, unextraordinary, oft-overlooked moments of long-term love - echoes these sentiments, but also opens itself up to different interpretations. “From one angle it’s a celebration of all the relationships that make it so far you both feel like you can live forever,” Abigail muses, “[and] from another it’s the fantasy of imagining what it would look like if your parents had been able to grow old together.”

Watch the Fiona Jane Burgess-directed video below.