Song is from No. 1 album Give Me The Future
Just as the weather begins to warm, Bastille has shared a contender for song of the summer with the release of new single, “Remind Me.”
A breezy, sensual, and yet deceptively contemplative slice of pop, “Remind Me” demonstrates Bastille’s unrivalled ability to craft infectious melodies and irresistible hooks. Built around sliding funk guitars and Dan Smith’s distinctive vocals, the track grows until it reaches a chorus filled with baroque vocal harmonies, ominous bass, and driving percussion, Smith’s voice aching with longing and heartbreak.
The video for the track is a mesmerizing fly through of Bastille’s pioneering Give Me The Future Experience, launched this week on Oculus. Formulated using footage from a special one-off show dubbed the Futureverse gig, the band were able to bring the metaverse to a real-life physical performance using cutting-edge virtual production technologies. In a world first, fans from anywhere in the world were able to scan themselves into these worlds as stylized avatars and interact with the real-life band members as they performed on stage, re-inventing the metaverse meets live experience whilst elevating the human connection.
“Remind Me” began life in LA whilst the band was working with Rami Yacoub from Max Martin’s production team MxM.
The track features background vocals from the band Fours and Zimbabwean-British singer Rationale.
“Remind Me” comes hot on the heels of Bastille’s critically acclaimed, No. 1 album, Give Me The Future. The album explores a futuristic wonderland free from restrictions. Brimming with literary, cinematic, and cultural references to films like Thelma & Louise, the artist Keith Haring, and musicians like Phil Collins and The Police, the album is filled with danceable dreamscapes, providing an escapist universe where you can travel back and forward in time to be anyone, do anything, and embrace a new wave of technology, which enables us to get lost inside our imagination.
