Bastille recently returned to the mainstream music scene with their single 'Good Grief', and frontman Dan Smith has spoken about the track and the band's new sound in an interview with NME.
Bastille's Dan Smith
Chatting about the story behind the song, Smith said: "I love hooks and making big pop songs that hopefully you'll remember, but lyrically I'm drawn to topics that are slightly less well-trodden. So this is a song about loss, but the ups and downs of it and those moments of euphoria you get."
Also talking about the differences fans will hear in the new album when compared to previous LP 'Bad Blood', Smith explained: "I think we've really pushed our sound. The whole album weaves through these different moods and scenes, going from massive to tiny and intimate and then back to bombastic again. Because the first album was initially a bedroom project and I couldn't play guitar at the time, there were no guitars on it. But then from touring we found that Will [Farquarson], who plays bass in the band, is also a really good guitarist. So we've tried to incorporate guitars into this album without falling into that clichéd indie sound.
"We've never really given a f**k about existing within a genre. If we wanna have a ridiculous, over-the-top blaring horn sample on one song and then go into minimal electronica on the next, that's completely fine."
He also confirmed that working with co-producer Mike Crew was always on the cards, never being interested in working with a big pop producer from the US or Sweden.
"It was really important for us to progress and evolve," he said, "but we wanted to do that ourselves. It wasn't about incorporating someone else's sound. I think there's stuff on this album that sounds like it's from a different band, but that's because we wanted to do it, not because we brought in somebody else who could transfer what they do onto us. That's never interested us at all."
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