From the Pyre is a dense, baroque sophomore album favoring ambitious arrangements over simple pop; songs serve as emotional anchors, exemplified by Ethel Cain's 'Nettles'.
The Last Dinner Party: From the Pyre review baroque'n'roll band's speedily released second album is overheated
Last Dinner Party's second album is baroque, densely arranged and theatrical, often prioritising maximalism and imagery over straightforward melodic pleasure.
"My job at that moment is to conjure a small dust devil of unreality around us, to pull it up out of a sticky, shiny carpet and flappy, beer-soaked speaker cones," she writes. "I have to make it out of words and sounds and looks."