The Last Dinner Party announce new LP ‘From The Pyre,’ share “This is the Killer Speaking”

The Last Dinner Party have announced their second album, the follow-up to last year’s Prelude to Ecstasy. From The Pyre is due out October 17 via Island. They made it with producer Markus Dravs, and here’s what they say about it:

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 an opulent table. It also feels metatextual and cheeky in places, like a knowing look reflected back at ourselves.

The first single is the upbeat, dramatic “This is the Killer Speaking.” Watch the video, directed by Harv Frost, below.

The band have shows in Europe and the UK lined up this summer, followed by a few US festival dates, including both the NYC and DC-area editions of All Things Go. See all dates below.

THE LAST DINNER PARTY – FROM THE PYRE TRACKLIST
1. Agnus Dei
2. Count The Ways
3. Second Best
4. This Is The Killer Speaking
5. Rifle
6. Woman Is A Tree
7. I Hold Your Anger
8. Sail Away
9. The Scythe
10. Inferno

THE LAST DINNER PARTY: 2025 TOUR DATES
Jul 18 Lollapalooza Paris Paris, France
Jul 26 Truck Festival Oxfordshire, UK
Jul 27 Tramlines Sheffield, UK
Aug 2 Y Not Festival Pikehall, Derbyshire, UK
Aug 3 Kendal Calling Penrith, UK
Aug 11 Sziget Festival Budapest, Hungary
Aug 15 MS Dockville Hamburg, Germany
Aug 16 Pukkelpop Hasselt, Belgium
Aug 17 Cabaret Vert Charleville-Mézières, France
Aug 23 Victorious Festival Portsmouth, UK
Aug 24 FORWARDS Bristol, UK
Sep 26 All Things Go Washington, DC, USA
Sep 27 Soundside Music Festival Bridgeport, CT, USA
Sep 28 All Things Go Forest Hills, NY, USA