Bastille announce new album ‘&’ and share first four tracks
nme.comBastille have announced their new album ‘&’, and shared the first four songs from it – listen to the new tracks below.The album, which is described as a “collection of story songs”, will be released in full on October 25 and you can pre-order it here.
For now, they have released ‘Part One’ of the album, which consists of four new tracks: ‘Intros & Narrators’, ‘Eve & Paradise Lost’, ‘Emily & Her Penthouse In The Sky’ and ‘Seasons & Narcissus’.Listen to the blissed out, fingerpicked tracks below, which find Dan Smith and co in folky, reflective form, set to lush, warm production.The first track, ‘Intros & Narrators’, comes complete with a new video, which was captured in a single take while in the Sargasso Sea in the Bermuda Triangle earlier this year.
Smith was invited by Greenpeace to the location, which is one of the most important marine ecosystems in the world, to help raise awareness of the importance of protecting our oceans.Watch the video here:The remainder of the album’s tracks will be released in three further ‘Parts’ in the coming months ahead of the full album release in October.Bastille have also released a video of Smith introducing fans to the album’s central concept and the making of the music.
Watch here:“I’ve always loved writing story songs,” he says in the video, “and using tales of other people as a way into making music and talking about my experiences in life.
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