Vinyl Record
The Last Dinner Party - From The Pyre
The Last Dinner Party - From The Pyre on LP vinyl. A 2025 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 2025
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2025 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
From The Pyre is The Last Dinner Party's 2025 second album, arriving after the sudden, ornate breakout of Prelude to Ecstasy and choosing pressure over simple repetition. The band keep the theatrical vocabulary that made them instantly recognisable, but the room is darker: saints, rifles, scythes, sailors, anger and fire move through songs that feel less like salon spectacle and more like stories told after disaster. Agnus Dei opens with a sense of ritual scale; This Is the Killer Speaking brings a western bite to their art-rock drama; The Scythe turns heartbreak into gothic prophecy; Sail Away offers a more exposed ache without losing the album's mythic frame. Markus Dravs' production and Alan Moulder's mix give the record a broader muscularity, letting guitar, piano, brass and Abigail Morris' voice collide without sanding away the band's excess.
From The Pyre matters because it answers the difficult second-album question with expansion, not apology. In 2025, The Last Dinner Party prove that their debut's drama was not a single aesthetic trick; they can make the world stranger, heavier and more emotionally direct.
For collectors who picked up Prelude to Ecstasy, this is the necessary follow-through. It shows a band turning early hype into a deeper catalogue identity: still theatrical, still grand, but more scarred, more elemental and more comfortable letting songs twist into unexpected shapes.
Baroque art rock with gothic pop drama, muscular guitars, piano balladry, brass flashes, theatrical vocals and darker narrative imagery.
Recommended for: Fans of Prelude to Ecstasy looking for the next chapter; Collectors of 2020s British art rock with strong visual identity; Listeners who like dramatic guitar bands with baroque pop instincts.
What year was From The Pyre released? From The Pyre was released in 2025 as the band's second studio album. How does From The Pyre compare with Prelude to Ecstasy? It keeps the theatrical ambition but feels darker, heavier and more elemental, with more fire, violence and grief in the imagery. Which songs are good entry points? Agnus Dei, This Is the Killer Speaking, The Scythe and Sail Away show the album's range from ritual drama to exposed balladry.