The Last Dinner Party Announce Debut Album 'Prelude To Ecstasy' With "On Your Side"
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London's The Last Dinner Party celebrates the announcement of their debut album, Prelude To Ecstasy, with the release of their latest single, "On Your Side." The track, described as "a love song with its hands tied," shows off the band's softer side as they craft a tale about inescapable devotion.
"On Your Side" is simply perfect. From soft, sweeping verses where Abigail's angelic vocals enrapture the listener to choruses that swell and build towards genuinely epic proportions, the single merges sad girl music with a resilient classic rock foundation. Shimmering instrumentals are perfectly layered in the song's theatrical and euphoric mix, allowing every band member a moment in the sun as crisp vocals cut through the listener, bringing them to tears and then inspiring them to sing along at the top of their lungs before shepherding them through a kaleidoscopic cloud of sound.
"The outro came from a wonderful improvised moment in the studio; James Ford had this synthesizer that warped and delayed and played with the fabric of whatever you put into it. So Aurora and Abigail sat in the studio after lunch and improvised some piano and vocal lines, letting the sounds build on top of each other until that final gasp. It turned into this wrenching shimmering section that sounds like the end of a poisonous relationship; dissolving, fragmenting, painful but also ultimately freeing," shares the band.
The single will be featured on the band's highly anticipated debut album, out February 2, standing alongside indie-pop, art-rock bangers like "Nothing Matters," "Sinner," and "My Lady Of Mercy." "Ecstasy is a pendulum which swings between the extremes of human emotion, from the ecstasy of passion to the sublimity of pain, and it is this concept which binds our album together," shares The Last Dinner Party. "This is an archeology of ourselves; you can exhume our collective and individual experiences and influences from within its fabric. We exorcised guitars for their solos, laid bare confessions directly from diary pages, and summoned an orchestra to bring our vision to life. It is our greatest honor and pride to present this offering to the world, it is everything we are."
Watch the "On Your Side" video below:
