The Last Dinner Party, originally the Dinner Party, are an English-Australian rock band from London, formed in 2021. The band consists of Abigail Morris (vocals), Lizzie Mayland, Emily Roberts, Georgia Davies (bass) and Aurora Nishevci. They have no permanent drummer, and are currently joined for live performances by Dave Adsett and Luca Caruso.
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"I picked Stockhausen: Helikopter-Streichquartett. This represents a very specific time in my life when I started studying contemporary composition and I was introduced to serialism, which is a whole different way of thinking about music."Watch this moment
"CMAT's 'Crazymad, For Me' is like on the forefront of the country music renaissance, I think just globally. She's incredible, such a great voice, one of the most engaging and enigmatic performers I've ever seen."Watch this moment
"East To Wes, I discovered her when I was studying jazz music at Uni and she kind of inspired me... it's got some of her own tunes on here I particularly like blues for herb, it's just like a classic Blues structure but yeah it's a banger, a jazz banger."Watch this moment
"Donnie Hathaway is one of my heroes. I think he just has the most amazing voice in history... Donnie Hathaway is just a vocal icon; there's no one more important to me."Watch this moment
"My next pick is Shabazz Palaces Live at Third Man Records... it's Ishmael Butler... he's the voice, it's a hip-hop act and it's just so good. It's so singular, especially on Black Up, it's like really jazzy and weird and syncopated and sparse."Watch this moment
"She kind of changed my thinking about listening to music and just listening and hearing and the difference between the two in general. She's a kind of pioneer of deep listening, and I think it's just an interesting mindset to get into to just sit and listen to sounds."Watch this moment
"This record by Molly Lewis, she is a whistler. There's no words on this record, it's just whistles and it's absolutely beautiful. It's like really haunting, very delicate."Watch this moment
"I'm going to do The Slits next. I particularly like 'Typical Girls,' but everything on here is great. Love the punk energy and like not caring what people think, and it just kind of sounds like freedom."Watch this moment
"Justice for The Car, it's such a good album and it does show their musical maturity, whatever that means."Watch this moment
"One thing I love about Minnie Riperton is just like how to phrase this delicately, she's unapologetically like very horny in her music, and I love that. I think it's so excellent to hear this beautiful, elegant, amazing voice just talking about sex, just straight up."Watch this moment
Every picker shows up alone, sits down in front of the camera, and unpacks a bag. The next one is one click away.
