In late 2012 they released Other People's Heartache Pt 2, and had finished recording their debut album, but were deciding on the track list. They began recording their debut album in June 2012, which Dan Smith said 'we basically made the album in a studio the size of a cupboard, so it was one extreme to the other.' They released a third single, ', in August 2012, which managed to chart a number 90 in the. In early 2012, they also released the mixtape Other People's Heartache as a free download, which featured covers of various different songs. In late 2011 they self-released their debut EP as a digital download and on CD.They signed to and released their second single ', but due to little promotion for the single, it failed to chart. On 4 July 2011 they released their debut single '/'Icarus' through London-based independent record label Young & Lost Club, released on 7' vinyl limited to 300 copies. Smith, Wood, Farquarson, and Simmons played together before the band was started, but all of their first songs were written and recorded by Smith. 'Released: 11 October 2013BackgroundThe band initially included two other musicians on violin and cello, but dwindled down to the four current members. These Streets 14:356: Weight Of Living pt II 17:307. Will Farquarson – Bass, keyboards, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, backing vocals.Ĭhris “Woody” Wood – Drums, percussion, backing vocalsBastille – Bad Blood Tracklist1. Kyle Simmons – Keyboards, percussion, backing vocals. Dan Smith – Lead vocals, keyboards, piano, percussion, string arrangements, production, programming. Where many of their contemporaries used the glamour of synth-pop’s ’80s heyday and electronic music’s infinite possibilities to craft shiny pop fantasies, Bastille builds on the glossy, anthemic approach they set forth on the Laura Palmer EP. The singles are “Overjoyed”, “Bad Blood”, “Flaws”, “Pompeii”, “Laura Palmer” and “Things We Lost in the Fire”.Brice Ezell of PopMatters compared the band to the sound of Coldplay and wrote, “booming male choirs, string effects, echoey pianos, allusions to Greek mythology and the Bible – Bastille brings out all the artillery on Bad Blood, and the result is nothing less than earth-shattering.“Heather Phares” Bad Blood reveals that Bastille is a synth-driven band that isn’t particularly arty, something of a rarity during the electronic pop revival of the 2000s and 2010s. It was released on 4 March 2013 in the United Kingdom, and on 3 September 2013 in the United States.
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