From The Pyre (Vignette Edition LP)

Description

 This die cut gatefold vinyl packaging not only houses the beautiful 140g special pressed disc but also includes a stage cutout and five double-sided 12x12” sheets displaying the different characters portrayed by the band throughout the album. These sheets can be interchanged.

The Last Dinner Party on the new album: “This record is a collection of stories, and the concept of album-as-mythos binds them. ‘The Pyre’ itself is an allegorical place in which these tales originate, a place of violence and destruction but also regeneration, passion and light.

“The songs are character driven but still deeply personal, a commonplace life event pushed to pathological extreme. Being ghosted becomes a Western dance with a killer, and heartbreak laughs into the face of the apocalypse. Lyrics invoke rifles, scythes, sailors, saints, cowboys, floods, Mother Earth, Joan of Arc, and blazing infernos. We found this kind of evocative imagery to be the most honest and truthful way to discuss the way our experiences felt, giving each the emotional weight it deserves.”

“This record feels a little darker, more raw and more earthy; it takes place looking out at a sublime landscape rather than seated an opulent table. It also feels metatextual and cheeky in places, like a knowing look reflected back at ourselves.”

Side A

1.           Agnus Dei

2.           Count The Ways

3.           Second Best

4.           This Is The Killer Speaking

5.           Rifle

Side B

6.           Woman Is A Tree

7.           I Hold Your Anger

8.           Sail Away

9.           The Scythe

10.         Inferno

Produced by Markus Dravs