The Last Dinner Party are feasting on love, death and killer riffs
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Rachell Smith The Last Dinner Party (L-R): Aurora Nishevci, Emily Roberts, Abigail Morris, Georgia Davies and Lizzie Mayland
If you're the sort of person to get lost in an album, The Last Dinner Party have a treat for you. On their second record, From The Pyre, the last note of the last song segues perfectly into the opening bars of the first one. They're even in the same key (F major, musicology fans). When you listen on a loop, it draws you ever deeper into its whirlpool of dreams and nightmares and sex and death. "That wasn't deliberate, actually, but that's really cool," says guitarist Emily Roberts, when it's pointed it out to her. "Maybe, subconsciously, that's why those songs bookend the album." As the name suggests, From The Pyre is darker, grubbier, more gothically grandiose than their critically acclaimed debut, Prelude To Ecstasy. "It felt like there were no limits for what we could do, whether it was a really long guitar solo, or something inspired by a Bulgarian folk choir," says Davies.
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