Feature Video: The Last Dinner Party - This Is The Killer Speaking
It marks the band's eighth collaboration with director Harv Frost, who is also behind the band's previous music videos, including the short film 'Prelude to Ecstacy', a compilation of four music videos released last year. Similar to 'Prelude's' nods to Giallo films such as Suspiria and Profondo Rosso, dark fantasy features front and centre in 'This Is The Killer Speaking', with scenes of centaur women and a Jack the Ripper-esque figure alternating with the band's raucous performance in a neon-soaked saloon.
'This Is The Killer Speaking' is the first track to be released from The Last Dinner Party's sophomore album From The Pyre, which they say has been heavily influenced by the conscious mythologising of real-life events. 'This record is a collection of stories, and the concept of album-as-mythos binds them' explains the band. ''The Pyre' itself is an allegorical place in which these tales originate, a place of violence and destruction but also regeneration, passion and light.'
Speaking to Rolling Stone UK, vocalist Abigail Morris explains 'We'd found a new way of mythologising where everything that happened is true, but the whole record is about the nature of being an artist, and what does it mean to take a love story that happened to you, and to take that person and turn them into a character that's immortalised in a song. When does that person stop being the real person you were in a relationship with and start becoming a character that is separate from that? That, for me, is what a lot of these songs cover.'
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