The cult of The Last Dinner Party is open to everyone. But their new single is one for the girls.
The unstoppable glam comet of a English band have released their third single this afternoon (October 9), and “My Lady of Mercy” serves as the frenzied follow-up to the spring’s iconic debut and instant SOTY “Nothing Matters” and June’s boisterous lust altar kneeler “Sinner”. The only thing that’s left us slightly disappointed, so far, by this dazzling new band is the lack of a Boston date on their entirely sold out upcoming North American tour.
But the cacophonous “My Lady of Mercy” is certainly enough to keep seduction levels at an all-time high, no matter which side of attraction we find ourselves at the moment.
“‘My Lady of Mercy’ is about being a girl,” the band declares. “A girl looking up at a painting of Joan of Arc for the first time and thinking that she looks so brave and so beautiful that she wants to kiss her. And maybe she also wants to kiss the girl who stands next to her in the school choir.”
Because this new dose of musical enchantment was, as the band puts it, “very much inspired by a couple of books in particular,” it arrives with a recommended reading list: The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by herself; and Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima.
Hit the library, hit the museum, and hit choir practice. But not before feasting the eyes upon the “My Lady of Mercy” video, which flashes and dashes across the screen through the directorial lens of Harv Frost and Dora Paphides.
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