You'll hear disco basslines, guitars, gospel, spaceship sounds, sensual strings, whistling and vocoders, including a plug-in beloved by Bon Iver and a talk box favoured by Kanye West. On Give Me The Future, Bastille head everywhere from '80s New York with the artist Keith Haring ("Club 57") to a hospital in Australia ("No Bad Days"). If a device could allow you to do that, why would you want to stay in the real world? Where would you go? What would you do? The possibilities are infinite." Imagine you could dream yourself into any time, place or space. "The more I looked into it, the more it made sense for an album. I'd never heard of maladaptive daydreaming before. "This guy spent six or seven hours every day inside his head, dreaming himself somewhere else, as someone else, as a way to cope with childhood trauma. The initial inspiration for Give Me The Future came not from tech, but a 2019 Edinburgh Festival stand-up show about maladaptive daydreaming. But I'm not interested in easy or straightforward commercial success. "As usual, I haven't made it easy - for the band or for our fans. Everything from the artwork and the videos to the tech and how we perform the album live will tie together." "I've always admired artists who can create a world around an album," says Dan. Throughout the album campaign, Bastille will team up with genuine tech companies and employ A.I. Opener "Distorted Light Beam"'s gaming-referencing lyrics set the stage for songs themed around escape on an album cinematically structured with interludes and a spoken word, state-of-the-nation address by Award-winning actor, musician, writer, creator, producer, director and activist Riz Ahmed. What Future Inc stands for will become clear as the album rolls out." "Most tech companies start out with seemingly good intentions, but a few years down the line, you're up to your neck in what you didn't expect. "Future Inc is a bit of fun, a way to focus the themes of the album and to question the motives of big tech," says Dan.
You'll witness how it works in the video for euphoric lead single "Distorted Light Beam" and its thrill-ride follow-up "Thelma + Louise," both recently shot in Serbia, featuring Dan alongside the BAFTA winning Save Me and His Dark Materials actress Remmie Milner. We're a whisker away from the technology at the heart of the album."įuture Inc, a fictional, but familiar tech giant has invented Futurescape, a device which allows users to live out their dreams virtually. You can choose how you look, rewrite your past, behave as you like. "We're in the age of deep fake, fake news and lying world leaders. "Writing the songs at such a strange time, with everyone stuck at home, glued to screens, fed into the feeling that what's real and what's not is now difficult to discern," says Dan. The album was already underway and the band on hiatus from touring for the first time in eight years when the world shut down, forcing interaction solely through screens. Exploring both the opportunities of new technology and the dark side of lives lived online, it's as playful as it is thought-provoking, as dystopian as it is dancefloor-friendly and as electronic as Bastille have ever been.Įerily, songwriter Dan Smith came up with the concept pre-pandemic. Give Me The Future, Bastille's wildly-ambitious new album, is a tribute to tech times and a glimpse of what could be to come. Blurring the boundaries between real and virtual worlds.
A science fiction future that already exists.
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