If technology advanced to the stage that dreams and thoughts could be examined, Bastille's relentlessly creative leader Dan Smith would make a fascinating test subject. “Sometimes it can be slightly like a pathology, having all these songs in your head all the time,” the Bastille frontman tells The FADER over Zoom. “It can mean you're kind of half in and half out of reality at the best of times.” A solitary creator by nature, he poured this endless stream of music into the lyrical expanse of each of the bands three studio albums, 2013's Bad Blood, 2016's Wild World, and 2019 release Doom Days, on his own for the first decade of the band’s existence.
Smith only allowed longtime producer Mark Crew to breach the protective barrier he’d formed around the band’s musical identity.
Early iterations of Bastille’s fourth studio album Give Me The Future presented as more of a grand collection of sci-fi inspired songs attempting to make sense of the world’s fast-moving venture into dystopia than a cohesive album.
Needing to get out of his own head by letting someone else in, he opened himself up to collaboration on a broader scale for the first time and found clarity and confidence within that.
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