Bastille @ Leeds Festival 2015 (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)
Bastille feels it’s now about time they granted 2013’s ‘Bad Blood‘ a successor, and have unveiled the new single ‘Good Grief‘.
The ‘Wild World‘ LP is expected out later this year and has a tough act to follow after the debut album immediately launched Dan Smith into the big time, eventually reaching number one in the UK. Live4ever said of the 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.”