The Last Dinner Party "Prelude to Ecstasy" Cream Vinyl/Poster/CD New/Sealed

Description: The Last Dinner Party "Prelude To Ecstasy" Island Records 5851906 New/Sealed/UnplayedLimited Edition (of 2000) Cream Vinyl, LP, released, with a 5 bonus track CD and a double-sided A3 poster, by Rough Trade in February 2024. The Last Dinner Party are a British indie rock band from London, formed in 2021. The band consists of Abigail Morris (vocals), Lizzie Mayland (vocals, guitar), Emily Roberts (lead guitar, mandolin, flute), Georgia Davies (bass), and Aurora Nishevci (keyboards, vocals). They have no permanent drummer, and are currently joined during live performances by Rebekah Rayner. The band signed with Island Records before releasing their debut single "Nothing Matters" in April 2023, which became a top 20 UK hit. They were awarded the Rising Star Brit Award in December 2023, subsequently winning the BBC Sound of 2024 poll. Their debut studio album, "Prelude to Ecstasy", was released on 2 February 2024 and debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart. A press release called the concept of ecstasy a "pendulum which swings between the extremes of human emotion, from the ecstasy of passion to the sublimity of pain" and one that "binds [the] album together". The band also stated that they "laid bare confessions directly from diary pages, and summoned an orchestra to bring our vision to life", calling it their "greatest honour and pride to present this offering to the world, it is everything we are". According to the review aggregator Metacritic, "Prelude to Ecstasy" received "universal acclaim" based on a weighted average score of 84 out of 100 from twenty-one critic scores. Uncut described it as "a rich saturnine, baroque-pop set full of romantic drama. Strings, piano and keyboard combine with muti-textured guitar in songs that, though engaging, tend toward the florid". John Earls of Record Collector wrote that "Prelude to Ecstasy inhabits its own world as magnificently as The Lexicon of Love or Dog Man Star in marrying its grandiose aims with massive tunes. [...] There's not a weak moment in these 11 songs." Sophie Williams of NME found the album to have "a melodic confidence throughout that's a rare find in a debut. The Last Dinner Party may have some reverence for their art-rock forebears (think: early Julia Holter or St Vincent), but also enough self-belief and magnetism to set them apart from what's come before", summarising it as "fantastic songs that are easy to embrace and return to". Reviewing the album for MusicOMH, David Murphy stated that the sound is "varied but invariably bold, gesturing camply towards a raft of classic pop styles" and that "the band always sound cohesive, not just a list of educated nods, the music impeccably arranged and with true depth to the writing". DIY's Lisa Wright stated that "Prelude to Ecstasy" is "proof in an age of algorithms that a completely singular band can beat them all and come out on top without diminishing a shred of their vision". Ellie Robertson of The Skinny concluded that, "Whether you call it glam, goth, or grotesque, these writers are resurrecting a long lost art in popular music – using big sounds, with indulgent lyrics, crafting a listening experience so rich it borders on hedonism." Rolling Stone's David Browne opined that "there's no denying the way their blowsy, unrestrained songs knock you upside and down and leave you with a dizzying high", calling the "combined mood [...] very post-lockdown".

Price: 40 GBP

Location: St. Leonards-on-Sea

End Time: 2025-01-08T17:43:35.000Z

Shipping Cost: 24.81 GBP