Bastille on "Good Grief" single: 'It's a bit of a Trojan Horse'

"Pompeii" hitmakers Bastille have opened up about their forthcoming new album's lead single, "Good Grief", in a new interview with Radio.com.

Frontman Dan Smith explained that they were particularly interested in the tension that sits uncomfortably between elation and devastation, and believes they captured it with this track. He said:

"With a lot of Bastille songs, sometimes the lyrical subject matter is quite odd, or dark. But we wanted the song to kind of capture the weird complicated mess that is the process of loss and the path that you take through it, like the massive ups and massive downs. We tried to create something that felt kind of happy/sad, but euphoric, and as messy as that situation and that progression of emotions can be.”

“I guess just a bit of a Trojan horse. In that it’s quite fun, and then if you really listen to it, you’re like, ‘Oh, God, this is really sad.’ But I think with a lot of the music that we like, it’s just about finding the right balance between the two things and that kind of tension of something that can feel uplifting and devastating at the same time.”

The band's highly anticipated new album, entitled "Wild World", is due to be officially released on September 9 and a special limited edition boxset is being sold on their website. Click here for more information.

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