Bastille @ Leeds Festival 2015 (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)
Bastille will release their second album ‘Wild World‘ on September 9th.
They broke the news on Instagram soon after the successor to 2013’s ‘Bad Blood‘ was primed with new single ‘Good Grief‘s Spotify upload.
Dan Smith will be looking to keep the significant impact of his band’s debut going on this follow-up – we said of the eventual UK number one debut album:
“The conscious awareness of classical history – here displayed with the volcanic destruction of the ancient Roman city as a metaphor for listless youth – provides an intriguing observation for the well rounded lyrical sourcing in the songwriting at the band’s disposal.”
“‘Things We Lost In The Fire’ begins as a piano led ballad, before continuing the apocalyptic theme of fire-based destruction of possessions into ash, using a combination of tribal drumming and intermittent artificial electro-bell sounds in picking up the tempo as Smith exclaims of, ‘I was the match and you were the rock, maybe we started this fire’, act as the parting shot to a doomed relationship.”