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BASTILLE
The highly anticipated
new album
‘GIVE ME THE FUTURE’ 
out now

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After building a groundswell of buzz for its arrival, Bastille unveil their hugely anticipated new album Give Me The Future out today on EMI Records.

The band set the stage for the record with their latest single “Shut Off The Lights.” In addition to gathering nearly 5 million global Spotify streams in a couple of weeks, the track is B-listed at Radio 1.

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Heightening anticipation, Clash scored the record “8-out-of-10” and raved, ‘Give Me The Future’ achieves everything a pop album should and stands out as Bastille’s best and most expansive work.” As part of an extensive profile, NME said it’s, ‘A sci-fi, escapist wonderland, full of gleaming pop songs that take the four-piece to the heart of the dancefloor’. Rolling Stone UK applauded, “the best and most surprising album of their career to date with Gigwise observing, “Give Me The Future is packed full of expertly crafted songs that will plaster a smile on your face”.

To celebrate the album, Bastille will embark on the “Give Me The Future Tour” this Spring/Summer taking in shows across the UK and US. The UK tour kicks off at the London O2 Arena on April 7th – see the full list of dates below. Then in May the band out to the US for dates across May and June – dates below

Tickets are on sale now here.

Laced with references to sci-fi films and literature, video games and VR, Bastille’s new album Give Me The Future explores a futuristic wonderland free from restrictions—each song a different danceable dreamscape, a place where you can travel back and forward in time to be anyone, do anything, and embrace a new wave of technology, which enables us to get lost inside our imagination.

It’s a record that takes the idea of the limitless possibilities of the future and journeys everywhere from a joyride of escapism on the uplifting “Thelma + Louise” – a tribute to the iconic feminist film on its 20th anniversary – to 80’s New York with the artist Keith Haring on the bright and whistling “Club 57” to a hospital bed in Australia for the devastating but hopeful “No Bad Days.” You’ll hear disco basslines, orchestras of synths, guitars, futuristic gospel, spaceship sounds, euphoric strings, vocoders, talk boxes, a choir of roadies, and host of beats. The title track “Give Me The Future” tips its hat to Phil Collins and The Police, “Shut Off The Lights” is a sonic love letter to Paul Simon’s Graceland, and “Stay Awake” nods to Daft Punk and Quincy Jones.

Having thrown themselves into co-writing for other artists in recent years, for the first time ever on a Bastille album, the band inched open the door to collaborators. Although primarily produced by Dan Smith and long-term production partner Mark Crew, the band also worked with a handful of writers and producers to expand the world. “Distorted Light Beam” was co-written and produced with Ryan Tedder (Adele, Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift), who also helped as a sounding board and executive producer for the album. “Thelma + Louise,” “Stay Awake,” and “Back To The Future” were co-written with legendary songwriter Rami Yacoub (Britney Spears’ “…Baby One More Time”, Lady Gaga’s Chromatica Album). They also worked with British writers Jonny Coffer, Plested, and Dan Priddy to bring the album to life.

You’ll also hear the voice of award-winning actor, musician, writer, creator, producer, director, and activist Riz Ahmed on a spell-binding and evocative spoken word piece called “Promises.” Riz’s piece was a response the album and brings its overarching themes into sharp focus.

Over the course of their previous three albums, Bastille have cemented a reputation for building whole worlds around their releases, often doing so with innovative, award-winning creativity. Give Me The Future is no different, this time accompanied by a fictional, but familiar, tech giant called Future Inc., the creators of an invention called “Futurescape”—a device which allows users to live out their dreams virtually. It’s weaved through every element of the campaign and can be seen in the videos for the previous singles—“Distorted Light Beam,” “Thelma + Louise,” and “No Bad Days.” Watch Bastille talk about the inspiration behind Future Inc. Recently the band launched the FutureScape Dream Analyser website, where fans can input their dreams and create short-form videos based on their description using AI technology.

Allow Bastille to welcome you to The Future now…

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Give Me The Future
Tracklist

“Distorted Light Beam”
“Thelma + Louise”
“No Bad Days”
“Brave New World” (Interlude)
“Back To The Future”
“Plug In…”
“Promises” (by Riz Ahmed)
“Shut Off The Lights”
“Stay Awake?”
“Give Me The Future”
“Club 57”
“Total Dissociation” (Interlude)
 “Future Holds” (feat. BIM)

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