Bastille's Dan Smith announces new project, & (Ampersand)

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:

1. Intros & Narrators
2. Eve & Paradise Lost
3. Emily & Her Penthouse In The Sky
4. Blue Sky & The Painter
5. Leonard & Marianne
6. Marie & Polonium
7. Red Wine & Wilde
8. Seasons & Narcissus
9. Drawbridge & The Baroness
10. The Soprano & Her Midnight Wonderings
11. Essie & Paul
12. Mademoiselle & The Nunnery Blaze
13. Zheng Yi Sao & Questions For Her
14. Telegraph Road 1977 & 2024