The Last Dinner Party have shared a new single, ‘Knocking At The Sky’ – you can listen to it below.
The song appears on the deluxe edition of the London band’s second and latest album, 2025’s ‘From The Pyre’, which was released today (Thursday July 9).
Abigail Morris and co. debuted the track at London’s O2 Academy Brixton last December, and have since made it a regular fixture of their setlist. They most recently performed it at Mad Cool in Madrid last night (Wednesday July 8).
“‘Knocking At The Sky’ is the final tale from The Pyre. After creating an album about storytelling and worldbuilding, we thought it apt to end this act with a story set in the sinister mythworld itself: Los Angeles,” explained The Last Dinner Party.
“Hollywood is the ultimate fairytale; the stakes are at surreal heights, the landscape is unruly and plastic and its populated with a cast of Grimm characters all striving and struggling at the centre of their own hero’s journey.”
The single was the last song The Last Dinner Party recorded with Animesh Raval at Crouch End’s Church Studios. It is accompanied by a music video shot with director Sinclair Bryant in the band’s ersatz LA, as an homage to classic cinema.
“The visuals pay tribute to the sirens of Hollywood noir, the scream queens of slashers and skin flicks, and the underground world of John Waters,” a description adds.
‘From The Pyre (Deluxe Edition)’ also features the 2026 single ‘Big Dog’ and its accompanying spoken word piece, ‘Come All You Beasts’. Listen in full here.
Last weekend saw The Last Dinner Party open for Wolf Alice at their huge Finsbury Park show in London.
They’ll appear at Latitude and Wilderness this summer as part of their current UK and European festival run, before supporting both Sombr and Olivia Rodrigo in the US later this year and into 2027.
Reviewing TLDP’s slot at Mad Cool last night, NME wrote: “It left fans hungry for more, hopeful that their next course might be somewhat meatier.”
NME described the original ‘From The Pyre’ album as “a darker, more accomplished return” in a four-star review, concluding: “It’s still as deliciously dramatic as [2024 debut] ‘Prelude To Ecstasy’, fleshing out their world more and more with daring, dashing songs of true depth.”
The group later told us that their latest full-length effort was an “end of the world” album of sorts. Frontwoman Abigail Morris explained that the record examined “the surreal, simultaneously euphoric and destructive feeling of being in this band and everything we experienced over the last 18 months”.
Meanwhile, Morris recently joined forces with Lucia & The Best Boys on the single ‘Big Romance’. Earlier this year, The Last Dinner Party contributed to the star-studded ‘Help(2)’ charity album for War Child with the song ‘Let’s Do It Again!’.
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