Bastille's Dan Smith announces new project, & (Ampersand)
& (Ampersand) is the brand new project from Bastille's Dan Smith, which is a collection of story songs that intertwining the lives and wide worlds of startling women and men.
Released in four parts ahead of the full album release in October, Part One is out now and includes four tracks that introduces the record.
Eve & Her Paradise Lost is about the burdens of loving women cruelly made to feel blame and shame from the dawn of time. Seasons & Narcissus is a curious, twisted love song between someone and their own reflection. Emily & Her Penthouse In The Sky is about the revolutionary internal life of 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson, and how her life is framed often as being tragically reclusive, rather than terrifically radical. For Intros and Narrators, a one-take video for this was recorded earlier this year in the Sargasso Sea in the Bermuda Triangle, one of the most important marine ecosystems on the planet, to which Smith was invited by Greenpeace to help raise awareness about protecting our oceans.
Tracklist:
- Intros & Narrators
- Eve & Paradise Lost
- Emily & Her Penthouse In The Sky
- Blue Sky & The Painter
- Leonard & Marianne
- Marie & Polonium
- Red Wine & Wilde
- Seasons & Narcissus
- Drawbridge & The Baroness
- The Soprano & Her Midnight Wonderings
- Essie & Paul
- Mademoiselle & The Nunnery Blaze
- Zheng Yi Sao & Questions For Her
- Telegraph Road 1977 & 2024
The full album, & (Ampersand), is set for release on 2 October.
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