It takes real audacity to open one’s debut album with a 96-second orchestral overture. But on the gauntlet-throwing “Prelude to Ecstasy”, The Last Dinner Party have done just that. It’s a fitting introduction for these witchy-woman Brontë heroines, who in 2023 swash buckled their way onto the UK scene fully formed and festival-ready with their maximalist coquette-core, trailing vintage silks and velvets, pheromones and hormones in their wake.
The Last Dinner Party simply don’t do subtlety. London’s hottest Last Dinner Party has ev-er-y-thing: pomp, circumstance, guitar-goddess energy, Catholic guilt, feral desire, emotional violence, sing-along choruses about mindless [bleep]-ing, mandolins, keytars, liver…”
The Last Dinner Party perform a cover of “Dog Days Are Over” by Florence & The Machine live for BBC Radio 1’s Sound of 2024 Hopefully it’s the prelude to a long and iconoclastic career.
The Last Dinner Party
The Fat Angel Sings 