An ampersand intimately and magically joins things together. '&' (Ampersand) is also the name of an exhilarating Bastille project from Dan Smith, a collection of story songs that intertwine the lives and wide worlds of startling women and men. Poets and artists, anthropologists and scientists, characters from religion and myth, outsiders and trailblazers, all come to life here, in sound worlds fed by new collaborations, dazzling arrangements and an infectious spirit of musical freedom. '&' is a collection of songs about looking out at the world, disappearing into other lives rather than into ourselves, and about the humanity that can crackle and shimmer as a consequence.

Disc 1

Track name

Artist

1.Intros & Narrators

Bastille

2.Eve & Paradise Lost

Bastille

3.Emily & Her Penthouse in the Sky

Bastille

4.Blue Sky & the Painter

Bastille

5.Leonard & Marianne

Bastille

6.Marie & Polonium

Bastille

7.Red Wine & Wilde

Bastille

8.Season & Narcissus

Bastille

9.Drawbridge & the Baroness

Bastille

10.The Soprano & Her Midnight Wonderings

Bastille

11.Essie & Paul

Bastille

12.Mademoiselle & the Nunnery Blaze

Bastille

13.Zheng Yi Sao & Questions for Her

Bastille

14.Telegraph Road 1977 & 2024

Bastille

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