If artists’ catalogues are sometimes capable of be divided into outlined eras, every album distinct from the following, The Final Dinner Get together are doing issues otherwise. Their second album, ‘From The Pyre’, is, they are saying, not a lot an about-turn or sea change however an evolution and pure development from their 2024 debut, ‘Prelude To Ecstasy’. The place that first file launched the London band as a baroque-pop outfit with a penchant for the theatrical, its follow-up builds on that impression, darker, extra dramatic and somewhat extra developed.
Recorded in spring 2025 with Markus Dravs, ‘From The Pyre’ partly captures the aftermath of the five-piece being thrust into the highlight and the poisonous results of abruptly being some corners of the web’s most closely debated matters. “This coronary heart of mine’s a glorified abscess / In excessive demand, I really feel the necessity / To admit,” Abigail Morris admits, later calling herself “nothing however a shell”.
Slightly than let the net feedback drag them down, although, The Final Dinner Get together have returned renewed and in supremely assured kind. Their second album is pushed by character-led tales – signalled by the band in numerous iterations on its art work, typically straddling a bike, at others flailing a sword round. ‘This Is The Killer Talking’ is a homicide ballad about being ghosted, whereas the seething ‘Rifle’ places the band within the place of a mom whose baby has gone on to wage battle on the world. The nice and cozy piano pop of ‘Maintain Your Anger’ positions them on the planet of parenthood as soon as extra, however this time pondering in the event that they’d be match for the function.
The non-public remains to be in plentiful provide, even when packaged in these vignettes. The choral pop of ‘Second Finest’ was initially impressed by a relationship guitarist Emily Roberts went via, rising along with her bandmates’ experiences as they accomplished it collectively and constructed it right into a dancing ode to not being somebody’s precedence. ‘The Scythe’ is ‘From The Pyre’’s most affecting second, Morris intertwining the dual themes of a breakup and the loss of life of her father. “Don’t cry, we’re certain collectively / Every life runs its course / I’ll see you within the subsequent one,” she sings solemnly over a gently glowing refrain.
‘From The Pyre’ arrives just below two years after The Final Dinner Get together swirled onto the scene correctly with their debut, however by no means feels as if it’s been hurried to capitalise on momentum. As a substitute, it’s an achieved hear – nonetheless as deliciously dramatic as ‘Prelude To Ecstasy’, fleshing out their world increasingly with daring, dashing songs of true depth.
Particulars
- Report label: Island Information
- Launch date: October 17, 2025
