Bastille will release Give Me The Future + Dreams Of The Past on August 26th.
Bastille have posted their new video for Revolution.
“The chorus is about the intimacy of human connection in the context of some science fiction, space-centered imagery, but it’s also about the idea of those amazingly thoughtful people who spend their lives trying to change the world in a positive way,” Dan Smith.
“I’m totally over-awed by people like that – if you’re one of them, like an inventor, activist or scientist, you have to have the ability to imagine a version of the future that’s better than what currently exists, and then have that energy to actually work to make it happen.”
“Alongside all the other things life throws at you. So, I wanted to nod to those people and the idea that before anything big happens, most of them will have had these little revolutions in their minds, a change of perspective that leads to something bigger.”
This track is one of those which will be running through two of the three parts which are set to make up the deluxe version of this year’s fourth studio album, with new cuts, collaborations, covers and reprises all now added.
“In releasing this version of the record, we wanted to give the complete picture of what we intended with this album and also explore the idea that you can choose your own adventure,” Smith continues.
“You can dive into the ideas of the future and an electronic world, or you can fall back into the past – away from technology and into ideas of memory and nostalgia – both thematically and musically. Or you can choose full-on dancefloor heartbreak escape.”
