Bastille: Why the band makes music for 'dystopian' days

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While delivering unique hits like Pompeii and Happier at Reading and Leeds Festiva last month, the indie band -pop Bastille also offered young digital natives new tech-focused material to stream dir ect in their soul.

Almost half of their live set, including Shut off the Lights and Future Holds, was taken from their recent chart-topping album. charts Give Me The Future, which examines humanity's relationship with modern technology and the possibilities, good and bad, of going online. /p>

Leader Dan Smith describes it as "a bit weird and futuristic sci-fi pop album".

"We started it before the pandemic, but we went through the lockdowns and the weird times," he told the BBC. "It was amazing to have this catharsis to write songs about the weirdness of the times we live in and how often it feels like weird dystopian sci-fi anyway.

< p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00 ">"But it's also an album about escapism: escaping into the past, the future, fiction, fantasy and technology, and how that can be amazing...but there's also obviously complications and darkness in all of this stuff."< /p>

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At 36, Smith pretty much remembers a time before the internet, but many Bastille fans probably won't. featuring his band's mix of 90s dance covers.