The Last Dinner Party - From The Pyre (Deluxe) (2026) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Agnus Dei
02. Count The Ways
03. Second Best
04. This is the Killer Speaking Explicit
05. Rifle
06. Woman is a Tree
07. I Hold Your Anger
08. Sail Away
09. The Scythe
10. Inferno
11. Come All You Beasts
12. Big Dog
13. Knocking at the Sky

“We were feeling really energized, confident, and excited,” The Last Dinner Party singer Abigail Morris tells Apple Music, as she thinks about making their not-very-difficult second album, From the Pyre. “There was no pressure from any outside force. It was all coming from us, what was inspiring us and what made us excited in the studio.”

After the huge buzz (and BRIT Awards) that followed their debut album, 2024’s Prelude to Ecstasy, the band found the follow-up came surprisingly easily. Combining heavy themes and postmortems on past relationships with imagery involving nature, fire, and farming implements, the five-piece still manage to make their lyrics wry and cheeky. “This Is the Killer Speaking” takes them into murder ballad territory, while “Inferno” finds them watching The Real Housewives as a way of dealing with their meteoric rise. This deluxe edition adds three more songs to the album: the spoken-word “Come All You Beasts,” the on-stage intro to their snarling live favorite “Big Dog,” which also appears here alongside a new, Los Angeles-inspired song, “Knocking at the Sky.”

“The record feels simultaneously a lot darker, more serious, and aware of the state of the world,” says Morris. “Also, I think it’s tongue-in-cheek sometimes and a bit wry, which is the way we approach the world: having that balance of absurdity and deep emotion.”

In early 2025, TLDP teamed up with Grammy-winning producer Markus Dravs. “We admired so much of his previous work,” says bassist Georgia Davies. “He’s worked with Florence, Wolf Alice, and Björk and we were like, ‘Tick, tick, tick.’ We didn’t have all the songs fully written like we did with the first album. There were seeds of ideas and skeletons of songs that we built up all together as we were going along, which was a different process. It was really fun as well.”

The last step was to name the album, which happened over dinner and sake in Japan. “Having a really evocative title like that is important,” says Morris. “I love the word ‘pyre.’ It’s so medieval. The record’s meant to be a dark The Canterbury Tales [Chaucer’s Middle English pilgrimage collection].” Read on as Morris and Davies take you through From the Pyre, track by track.