British indie rockers The Last Dinner Party are releasing their new album, From The Pyre, next Friday (17 October). Ahead of the big day, the band have announced global listening parties to take place on the eve of the album’s release.

“Feast your ears on ‘From The Pyre’ before it’s released, at one of these free listening events around the world,” the band wrote on social media. “For entry details on each event, head here.”

For Australian fans, four listening parties will be held in four cities on Thursday, 16 October. The events will take place at Melbourne’s Record Paradise, Sydney’s Hum On King, Brisbane’s Rockaway Records, and Perth’s Midland Records.

The Last Dinner Party will embark on a European and UK tour this November, followed by a visit to Australia and New Zealand in early 2026. For the antipodean shows, the band have locked in huge outdoor and arena shows in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and Auckland.

The band made their Australian debut last July, performing at Spin Off festival in Adelaide and headline dates along the East Coast that required venue upgrades due to demand

Earlier this year, The Last Dinner Party said of their dramatic forthcoming album:

This record is a collection of stories, and the concept of album-as-mythos binds them. ‘The Pyre’ itself is an allegorical place in which these tales originate, a place of violence and destruction but also regeneration, passion and light.

The songs are character-driven but still deeply personal, a commonplace life event pushed to a pathological extreme. Being ghosted becomes a Western dance with a killer, and heartbreak laughs into the face of the apocalypse. Lyrics invoke rifles, scythes, sailors, saints, cowboys, floods, Mother Earth, Joan of Arc, and blazing infernos. We found this kind of evocative imagery to be the most honest and truthful way to discuss the way our experiences felt, giving each the emotional weight it deserves.

This record feels a little darker, more raw and more earthy; it takes place looking out at a sublime landscape rather than seated at an opulent table. It also feels metatextual and cheeky in places, like a knowing look reflected back at ourselves.

You can pre-order/pre-save the album here.

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