LONDON four-piece Bastille will be heading out on a UK arena tour following the release of their hugely anticipated second album, Wild World.
The band will perform at the Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff on Monday, October 31, with their second album due for release on September 9.
The album follows the band’s global four million selling, multi-platinum debut, Bad Blood.
Wild World retains the vivid, rich, filmic song-writing of its predecessor but pushes the band’s distinctive sound in exciting new directions. Lyrically, too, it’s a leap forward,
“If our first album was about growing up and the anxieties surrounding it” band member Dan Smith explains, “our second is about trying to make sense of the world around you, both as you see it and as it’s presented to you through the media. It’s also about asking questions of the world and of the people in it. We wanted the album to be a bit disorientating - at times extroverted and introverted, light and dark.”
Written by Dan Smith and co-produced with Bastille fifth member Mark Crew, Wild World was recorded in the same tiny, South London windowless basement studio where the band recorded its predecessor. It's a collection of 14 songs (19 on the deluxe edition) that sees Bastille at their boldest and most daring.
To support the release Bastille announce the, ‘Wild, Wild World Tour’ with tickets on sale from Friday, July 8 at 9am.
For tickets to the show please visit myticket.co.uk, seetickets.com or ticketmaster.co.uk
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