Those themes of social crises are grounded by personal stories. ‘Those Nights’, we wanted it to feel like a slightly more artistic statement; one of the videos we made was like a violent comedy. Indeed even as he beholds the outside world, in his opinion, collapsing, it is thoughts of her which dominate his mind.Song Meanings and Facts © 2020. “I’ve been banging on about it being this apocalyptic party record for a while, and I just wanted to make very clear that it’s not a hip-hop, EDM, US, popping bottles kinda party, it’s very much a British house party, rave, 90s, gritty album.
would the singer deciding to unplug from And in response to the latter, he has decided to seek an escape from contemporary addictions, most expressly the overuse of his phone.
Though dealing with serious topics through the magic of pop songwriting is nothing new when it comes to Bastille’s bangers – just look at ‘The Currents’, ‘Warmth’, ‘Snakes’ or basically anything else from ‘Wild World’, if you’re in need of a good example – it hasn’t been nearly as direct as on ‘Doom Days’.“It’s quite different,” says Dan.
The entire project is rooted in an “ apocalyptic ” setting. It just felt like we needed to be quite real with it. At a time where music is coming in waves every week, it’s important to, for us and our fans, commemorate this album because it could come and go in a flash.” They're back! Bastille: Doom Days Meaning. In the whole process taking a lot longer, we wanted to stop and make sure we said exactly what we wanted with the record. I think when people are trying to make money out of music they don’t wanna offend anybody and that’s always really tricky, but also music itself is a form of escapism. And I can say this in retrospect, but it was almost like an exercise in writing a big pop song to show to ourselves that we can, and show to other people that we can do that, we’re choosing not to. When they scored their first proper hit in 2013, it was about “ashy corpses years and years after the aftermath of a volcano, two dead people frozen in one position saying ‘fuck me I’m bored’.” Their songwriting is offbeat, and it’s something that resonates with their diehard fans, now maybe they hope listeners outside of their tight-knit fan community will take note. “Doom Days” is the second single released ahead of Bastille’s third album of the same name. Bastille already proved their musical chops on It's hard to say what Bastille could specifically do to alter its now familiar song playbook, but at the same time, the simple if broad "anything but Speaking on a range of topics, including filmmaking, the future of live music, and his appreciation for artists such as UFO and Thin Lizzy, Twisted Sister's Dee Snider proves game for all topics.Los Angeles alt-pop artist Luna Shadows confronts contemporary anxieties with a bit of light nostalgia on her new single, Barcelona's MOURN release their latest punk rock earworm, "This Feel Is Disgusting", which explores existential anxiety through joyful rocking out.It's easy to depict the song's all English lyrics and music video tribute to Western pop culture icons as searching for Western validation, but "Dynamite" hints mostly at the type of semiotic disruption that BTS has been notable for.Mt. And the party that’s going on throughout the record isn’t the boys out on the town; it’s a grubby British house party that ends on the kitchen floor.“You wanna feel like the conversations are happening with three people sitting in an empty bathtub at three in the morning,” Dan says. Wolf specialize in a mesmerizing form of atmospheric indie-folk that blends delicate electronic elements with gossamer vocals.
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If it was gonna be something that’s taken technically three years, it needed to feel relevant to us now, and that’s why it was important for us to add ‘Doom Days’ onto the album.”So those choirs made their way onto the record, along with some new songs. ‘Doom Days’ also ended up being held behind so it got its own moment to shine, away from worldwide hits (they’ve got it hard these pop stars, you know), off-cycle tours and mixtape releases. Login | Create Account. Releasing ‘Doom Days’ brings us back to the universe Bastille started setting up over a year ago, when they released ‘Quarter Past Midnight’. “Doom Days” is the title track from Bastille’s 2019 album. “It was amazing and inspiring getting to be on a couple of tour buses with a bunch of musicians who come from a different place, musically, than we do,” says Dan. It’s also a song that starts on the acoustic guitar and ends up as a full rave.
‘Doom Days’ signals the turning point, the darkest hours, both metaphorically and literally within the story, and everything after that feels euphoric and hopeful.“We wanted the album to feel really diverse but incredibly cohesive in terms of what it’s about, and have little inward looking Easter eggs. I remember at the time people were saying, ‘Oh no one’s really talking about politics’, and we were there on the side lines like, ummm, we are. You can choose whose version of events you want to hear and flick between them or choose one and go with it.
We ended up having to get a studio in Melbourne to record [them].” Watch the full video interview with Bastille about ‘Doom Days’ above now.Bastille will take the album on the road this summer as they play a series of festival slots, including appearances at Glastonbury and Reading & Leeds.
“Doom Days” is the title track from Bastille’s 2019 album.
We have the answer. ‘Divide’ tells the story of stopping someone getting in an Uber because you don’t want them to leave, while, as Dan says, gestures towards his own feelings about Britain leaving the EU. That’s why we wanted to treat ‘Doom Days’ as kind of a rap tune with loads of verses that just rolled on so we could say as much as we possibly could.”Having a concept to convey all of these ideas made it possible for the band to squash this many different themes and styles of music into eleven tracks. The first single, and first track of this album came with a music video where Dan shaves his head, obvs a clear indicator that … There are five videos ready to go, with the promise of more visuals. That’s why it’s important to us to write an album like ‘Doom Days’ that’s quite conceptual and strange in places.”The way music and politics integrate has changed, especially following the aftermath of events like the Manchester attacks in 2017.