Prelude to Ecstasy: Acoustics & Covers The Last Dinner Party

• 1 Prelude To Ecstasy 01:38
• 2 Burn Alive 03:21
• 3 Caesar on a TV Screen 03:49
• 4 The Feminine Urge 03:26
• 5 On Your Side 04:27
• 6 Beautiful Boy 03:47
• 7 Gjuha 01:29
• 8 Sinner 02:56
• 9 My Lady of Mercy 02:55
• 10 Portrait of a Dead Girl 04:57
• 11 Nothing Matters 03:01
• 12 Mirror 05:24
• 13 Caesar on a TV Screen (Acoustic) 03:34
• 14 Sinner (Acoustic) 03:15
• 15 My Lady of Mercy (Acoustic) 02:57
• 16 Nothing Matters (Acoustic / Live from Studio Brussel) 03:03
• 17 Mirror (Acoustic from The Brudenell Social Club, Leeds) 04:43
• 18 This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us 03:08
• 19 Up North (Live from Hebden Trades Club) 03:30
• 20 Wicked Game (Live from Showbox Sodo, Seattle) 03:38
• 21 Army Dreamers (Live from Studio Brussel) 02:07
• Total Runtime 01:11:05

Info for Prelude to Ecstasy: Acoustics & Covers

The Last Dinner Party have been the word on everyone's lips in 2024. Their debut album is a real baroque pop rager, taking inspiration from the band's favourite romantic poets to rip into ideas of gender, identity and femininity with sharp storytelling. The album's unpredictable tempo could take cues from Bowie’s finest glam rock moments and the swooping, dramatic vocals are reminiscent of the haunting melodies of Kate Bush. An early contender for the top spot of all end-of-year lists for sure. (Georgia, Rough Trade)

Without doubt Last Dinner Party will be the sound of 2024. Their debut album Prelude To Ecstasy is released via Island Records. It was produced by James Ford in London, and features the breakthrough singles, “Nothing Matters”, “Sinner”, and “My Lady Of Mercy”.

At the turn of 2023, The Last Dinner Party was little more than a new name being shared amongst those that had caught them live. Great songs, strong aesthetic. Having spent much of 2022 writing those songs, road-testing them, and then taking them into the studio, it wasn’t until April when the band released the instantly more-ish, dark guitar-pop of Nothing Matters that seemingly everyone had now formed an opinion on them. It was an introduction that took the online world by storm, and yet behind all the excitement and narrative was a fantastically confident indie-rock song by a band doing it the old-fashioned way, out on the road.

Features acoustic versions of ‘Ceaser On A TV Screen’, ‘Sinner’, ‘My Lady Of Mercy’, ‘Mirror’ and a live version of ‘Nothing Mateers’ as well as four covers including ‘This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us’ by Sparks, ‘Up North’ by Cathrine Howe, ‘Wicked Game’ by Chris Isaak and ‘Army Dreamers’ by Kate Bush.

Abigail Morris, vocals
Georgia Davies, bass
Lizzie Mayland, guitar
Aurora Nishevci, keyboards
Emily Roberts, lead guitar

The Last Dinner Party
From serenading the dimly-lit corners of East London pubs to Courting interest from several major record labels, agents, promoters & publishers in a few short months, The Last Dinner Party have burst forth gloriously into the guitar music renaissance. 

Conceived during a wine-stained evening in Brixton, the name embodies a musical and aesthetic ethos of decadence, mystery, spectacle and charm. Finding artistry in the intersection between the beautiful, sublime and grotesque, the band are guided by their favourite Romantic poets and Gothic novelists. 

  The preceding years of isolation and anxiety have only served to heighten The Last Dinner Party’s creative appeal as they usher in a new era of unashamed maximalism and untethered euphoria. They cast their net of inspiration across artists and genres, from Kate Bush and David Bowie, glam rock and new wave, to unexpected moments of twelve bar blues, classical overture and heavy synth breakdowns. 

  Singer Abigaille, guitarists Emily and Lizzie, keyboardist Aurora and bassist Georgia weave a fantasy of haunting melodies, explosive choruses, and lyrics that embrace tragedy and triumph in equal measure. At their shows, the band lead audiences through the soaring crescendos and pin-drop silences of the most debaucherous dinner parties, gathering a dedicated and growing company of attendees with every performance. 

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