Dan Smith unveils new singles, "Blue Sky & The Painter" and "Leonard & Marianne"
Bastille’s Dan Smith unveiled “&” Part Two – a two track release featuring new singles, "Blue Sky & The Painter" and "Leonard & Marianne", taken from the forthcoming album & (Ampersand).
"Blue Sky & The Painter" is inspired by the Norwegian expressionist painter, Edvard Munch and his relationship with his depression, and the difficult engine that allowed him to create, whilst "Leonard & Marianne" is a mesmerizing love song about longing and loss, inspired by the complex relationship between Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen, it’s one of the first tracks that Smith wrote for the & project back in 2020.
& Part Two follows the recently released & Part One which includes the four tracks, "Intros and Narrators", "Eve & Her Paradise Lost", "Seasons & Narcissus" and "Emily & Her Penthouse In The Sky".
The full album, & (Ampersand), is set for release on 2 October.
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