The Last Dinner Party have begun work on their second album: “It feels like we’re doing something new”

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The Last Dinner Party have revealed that they have started working on their second studio album.The London band released their acclaimed first record, ‘Prelude To Ecstasy’, in February.

It subsequently became the biggest UK Number One debut album in nine years. Last month, NME listed the LP as one of the 10 best debut albums of 2024 so far.During a recent interview with The Guardian, it was noted that TLDP had begun writing material for the second full-length effort “over a two-week session early in May”.“I think I can speak for everyone: it was the happiest we’ve been in a really long time,” explained frontwoman Abigail Morris.Guitarist Lizzie Mayland said the “silver lining” of the group’s rapid rise is that the songwriting process remains exciting to them. “It feels like we’re doing something new,” the musician continued.Morris went on to state that she was conscious of resisting the “sophomore trap” of aiming to either better their debut or reinvent themselves.“If we change, it’s going to be because we want to… a natural, gentle evolution as we go through our 20s,” the singer added.The update came ahead of The Last Dinner Party’s performance on the Other Stage at Glastonbury Festival 2024 last weekend, where they played two unreleased songs: ‘Second Best’ and ‘The Killer’.Elsewhere in the set, Morris called on the crowd to “make the change” at the General Election tomorrow (July 4).