The Final Dinner Social gathering have introduced their sophomore file, From The Pyre. The U.Ok. five-piece have additionally shared the album’s first single, “This Is The Killer Speaking” and its accompanying music video. The brand new file, the follow-up to their 2024 debut Prelude To Ecstasy, will likely be launched on October seventeenth by way of Island Data.
In an announcement, the band shared: “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.”
“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 at an opulent table. It also feels metatextual and cheeky in places, like a knowing look reflected back at ourselves.”
The lead single, “This Is The Killer Speaking,” evokes each the Western and mythological influences the group famous. The cinematic music video options guitarist Lizzie Mayland as a cowboy, searching down lead singer Abigail Morris as a centaur. Morris sings: “I’m down so bad I’m doing time / You look like a weeping saint / With your infected eye.”
The group started work on the file earlier this 12 months with Markus Dravs (Wolf Alice, Florence & The Machine). Their debut album, Prelude to Ecstasy, topped the Official U.Ok. Albums Chart upon launch and gained the largest opening week for a debut album by a British band since 2015.
Purchase The Final Dinner Social gathering’s From The Pyre now.
