The Last Dinner Party have today (August 28) announced a new album of covers and acoustic versions.
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The collection, which includes a soaring rendition of Sparks‘ ‘This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us’, will arrive on October 11. You can pre-order/save ‘Prelude To Ecstasy: Acoustics and Covers’ here.
The band’s cover of Sparks’ 1974 single arrives alongside a tour montage video that’s been put together with footage shot over the band’s recent trips to Japan, The United States and their recent performance at Reading Festival. The band have been performing the covers during their recent festival appearances and tour dates.
A short ‘Prelude To Ecstasy’ film will also be screened at a Soho Cinema and live-streamed to The Last Dinner Party’s YouTube channel on September 12.
Fans will have the opportunity to win tickets to the Leicester Square screening via the band’s mailing list. Check out the video for the Sparks cover and the film trailer here:
‘Prelude To Ecstasy: Acoustics and Covers’ tracklisting:
LP 1:
Side A
‘Prelude to Ecstasy’
‘Burn Alive’
‘Ceaser On A TV Screen’
‘The Feminine Urge’
‘On Your Side’
‘Beautiful Boy’
Side B
‘Gjuha’
‘Sinner’
‘My Lady of Mercy’
‘Portrait of A Dead Girl’
‘Nothing Matters’
‘Mirror’
LP 2:
Side C
‘Ceaser On A TV Screen’ (Acoustic)
‘Sinner’ (Acoustic)
‘My Lady of Mercy’ (Acoustic)
‘Nothing Matters’ (Live)
‘Mirror’ (Live)
Side D
‘This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us’ (Cover)
‘Up North’ (Cover)
‘Wicked Game’ (Cover)
‘Army Dreamers’ (Cover)
Recently, the band spoke to NME about what fans can expect from their next album. The band’s Aurora Nishevci and Lizzie Mayland spoke to NME just a week after their debut album ‘Prelude To Ecstasy‘ was announced as one of the 12 LPs up for this year’s Mercury.
Speaking about the pressure of following up their first album, Nishevci said: “There is a pressure going into the second album I guess, but I don’t think we’re so focused on that. We’re more excited because the first album for us was ages ago. We recorded it ages ago, like, a year before we actually released it. We’ve been so nonstop busy playing shows and everything since then so it’s exciting to be home and writing because that’s what we’ve been doing since we were kids. We’ve been creative little weirdos so it’s nice to get back to that space. It’s exciting.”
Nishevci added: “We’ve started writing songs for album two. So we’re starting to get ideas. We’ve not set out a concept for it, but we know we want to shift away aesthetically from album one, in terms of how we dress and the whole world. It’s still connected, but moving on to something a bit different.”
Maylan went on to describe it as “something new” and revealed that they’d been inspired by a recent trip to Japan on tour. “I feel like that’s really changed the aesthetic,” she added. She went on to describe the new album as “steampunk, baby! Let’s go!”
In a four-star review of the band’s critically acclaimed debut album, NME shared: “Some may choose to posit the band’s success as an antidote to the intense scrutiny – about their rise, appearance and decision to make music without a ‘serious’ intention – they’ve received in their early career. But take all of that away, and you’re still left with fantastic songs that are easy to embrace and return to. It’s hard to miss all the things they’re doing right.”
