The Last Dinner Party announce debut album ‘Prelude to Ecstasy’
Rising stars The Last Dinner Party have revealed details of their highly-anticipated debut album Prelude to Ecstasy, set for release on February 2nd through Island Records.
Since announcing themselves in grand fashion earlier this year with their first single, ‘Nothing Matters’, The Last Dinner Party have continued their astronomical rise and recently sold out The Roundhouse in London despite only releasing three songs.
Having spent recent months on the road, including a sold-out tour of the United States scheduled for November, The Last Dinner Party have earned a reputation for their theatrical performances, which often include a themed dress code for fans to follow.
The Last Dinner Party say of their debut album: “Ecstasy is a pendulum which swings between the extremes of human emotion, from the ecstasy of passion to the sublimity of pain, and it is this concept which binds our album together.”
The band continued: “This is an archeology of ourselves; you can exhume our collective and individual experiences and influences from within its fabric. We exorcised guitars for their solos, laid bare confessions directly from diary pages, and summoned an orchestra to bring our vision to life. It is our greatest honour and pride to present this offering to the world, it is everything we are.”
Before their show at The Roundhouse on the eve of Prelude to Ecstasy’s release, The Last Dinner Party will also support Hozier throughout November and December on a set of arena dates. They are set to play venues including Wembley Arena in London and The Hydro in Glasgow.
In addition to announcing Prelude to Ecstasy, The Last Dinner Party also shared the new single ‘On Your Side’. They say of the release: “‘On Your Side’ is a love song with its hands tied. It’s about being so devoted to someone that no matter what they do, no matter how much it hurts, how much you know you should leave, you can’t escape. The outro came from a wonderful improvised moment in the studio; James Ford had this synthesiser that warped and delayed and played with the fabric of whatever you put into it.”
“So Aurora and Abigail sat in the studio after lunch and improvised some piano and vocal lines, letting the sounds build on top of each other until that final gasp. It turned into this wrenching shimmering section that sounds like the end of a poisonous relationship; dissolving, fragmenting, painful but also ultimately freeing,” the band concluded.
Listen to ‘On Your Side’ below.
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