The Last Dinner Party return with new single ‘This Is The Killer Speaking’

The Last Dinner Party are back! The London quintet have returned today with a glorious new single entitled ‘This Is The Killer Speaking’ - the first track to be shared from their just-announced, much-anticipated second album ‘From The Pyre’. 

Due to hit shelves on 17th October via Island Records, the new LP will act as a follow up to their chart-topping debut ‘Prelude To Ecstasy’, which arrived just a little over eighteen months ago. Recorded with Grammy-winning producer Markus Dravs (Wolf Alice, Florence & The Machine, Bjork), ‘From The Pyre’ has been described by the band as “a collection of stories, and the concept of album-as-mythos binds them”. Continuing, TLDP explain: “‘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. 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.

“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.”

Watch the video for ‘This Is The Killer Speaking’ and revisit our February 2024 cover feature with The Last Dinner Party (which you can also check out in print!) below.