Mash up the whirling-dervish sensuality of Kate Bush; the art-school, glam-rock style of Roxy Music; the witchy drama of Florence Welch; and even the camp religiosity of Madonna. What do you get? Something that starts to resemble the Last Dinner Party.
Pay attention to that word “Last.” “The Dinner Party” sounds a bit blah, even suburban, but add in the modifier and it becomes something much more portentous and thrilling. The Brixton band consists of Georgia Davies, Abigail Morris, Emily Roberts, Lizzie Mayland, and Aurora Nishevci, who met while attending college in London, and it is part of the same gothic, theatrical tradition that brought us Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn and Emma Stone’s virtuoso performance in Poor Things. (Even the video for their unforgettable single, “Nothing Matters,” includes a nude bath scene, recognizable as one of Saltburn’s more risqué moments.)
