DAN SMITH has always been fascinated by escapism and his visions of a fantasy world fuel Bastille’s new album, the futuristic and compelling Give Me The Future.
While their previous album Doom Days (2019) was about an imaginary apocalypse — “staying inside, shutting the curtains and ignoring the world” — Give Me The Future is “cathartic and uplifting”.
On a video chat with singer Smith, 35, he says: “For me, escapism is about going into your dreams, subconscious or films, books and video games.
And it was something I wanted to interrogate on this record. “A lot of our early songs were imagining myself in Pompeii and growing up via the lens of myths like Icarus, or books or TV shows by legends like David Lynch.” And it was the death of an aunt in Australia through assisted dying following a battle with cancer that also made him think about resurrecting loved ones through technology, which is the story behind the band’s recent single No Bad Days.
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