The Last Dinner Party – From The Pyre

The Last Dinner Party have announced their second album,

From The Pyre will be released 17 th October 2025 through

Island Records.

The London five-piece headed into the studio in late 2024 with

Grammy Award winning producer Markus Dravs (Wolf Alice,

Florence & The Machine, Bjork) to start work on the follow-up

to their UK #1 debut album, 2024’s Prelude to Ecstasy. From

The Pyre is the sound of a band having a lot of fun rather than

feeling any innate pressure to follow-up on what was an

explosively successful debut record. It’s also the sound of a

young band developing and maturing their songwriting

together, as tight a unit as the endless months out on the road

pay testament to.

The Last Dinner Party on From The Pyre:

“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.”

With two BRIT Awards to their name (including Breakthrough

Artist earlier this year), and having sold out virtually every

show they played right across the globe (including three sold-

out hometown shows at London’s Eventim Apollo), The Last

Dinner Party’s arrival and subsequent worldwide success was

one of the most thrilling introductions to a new British band in

decades, and From The Pyre’s opening introduction suggests

that unparalleled success story shows no signs of relenting.