“Nothing Matters” by Last Dinner Party

"Nothing Matters" was the Last Dinner Party's first single and the curtain-raiser for their debut album, Prelude to Ecstasy (2024), from a London band that had already opened for the Rolling Stones and Nick Cave before putting out a single note. Abigail Morris first wrote it as a slow, sad ballad, then happiness with the boyfriend she had at the time tipped it the other way, and the whole band reshaped it into a shameless, full-throated love song.

James Ellis Ford produced and Alan Moulder mixed, and it's gloriously overdressed: Aurora Nishevci's piano, organ, synths and arrangement for French horn, trumpets and bass trombone, Serafina Steer's harp, Georgia Davies' bass, and guitars from L. Mayland and Emily Roberts, all swelling behind Morris like a velvet curtain.

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