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- Summary: The debut full-length release from British rock band The Last Dinner Party was produced by James Ford.
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- Record Label: Island
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 21 out of 22
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Feb 1, 2024Prelude to Ecstasy gleefully delivers.
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Jan 30, 2024These writers are resurrecting a long lost art in popular music – using big sounds, with indulgent lyrics, crafting a listening experience so rich it borders on hedonism. Some records are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and few to be chewed and digested. We’re still digesting Prelude to Ecstasy.
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Jan 31, 2024Widescreen ambitions should never be criticised, and as Prelude To Ecstasy ends with Mirror, a Cheryl Cole torch song with Nick Cave intensity and Bond-theme bombast, you have to conclude that this album is big, and it is clever.
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Feb 1, 2024The Last Dinner Party don’t leave one dramatic stone unturned. Pleasurably satisfying, you can’t help but come back for more.
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Feb 12, 2024They sound and act unlike many of their contemporaries, and seem preoccupied with carefully carving out a unique space in the modern indie scene to inhabit. It’s a fun space, regardless of how you may get there - and I’m glad to be here.
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Feb 2, 2024It’s a remarkably polished debut.
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UncutJan 30, 2024A rich saturnine, baroque-pop set full of romantic drama. Strings, piano and keyboard combine with muti-textured guitar in songs that, though engaging, tend toward the florid. [Feb 2024, p.30]