Give Me the Future by Bastille

Give Me the Future, Bastille's fourth album, arrived through EMI on 4 February 2022, the follow-up to Doom Days. The project that began as Dan Smith's solo vehicle is a proper four-piece by now, with Kyle Simmons on keyboards, Will Farquarson on bass and guitar and Chris "Woody" Wood on drums, and this time Ryan Tedder sat in the executive producer's chair. The result is indie pop with the gloss cranked all the way up, big-chorus songs that feel equally at home in headphones and in a festival field.

They rolled it out piece by piece: "Distorted Light Beam" first, then the title track, "Thelma + Louise" and "No Bad Days", with "Shut Off the Lights" landing just weeks before the album. A deluxe edition tacked on "Survivin'" from the 2020 Goosebumps EP, the band hit the road across the UK and Europe that April, and in August came the sprawling Give Me the Future + Dreams of the Past, split into three paths and carrying fourteen new tracks that doubled as the fifth chapter of their Other People's Heartache mixtape series.

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