The current members in the band Bastille include Dan Smith (vocals, keys), Kyle Simmons (bass, keys), Will Farquarson (guitar, keys), and Chris "Woody" Wood (drums, bass). They also toured with Charlie Barnes (guitar, bass, keys). The band Bastille is very well-known for its hit Pompeii, …show more content…
The band tries to shoot for an audience that has had experience with these things. They really “strike a chord” (ba dum tsss) with those type of people. As for others, they love the music anyway because the songs have a great melody and amazing riffs. Here is a part of the first track in Bad Blood (Pompeii): “But if you close your eyes, does it almost feel like you’ve been here before? But if you close your eyes, does it almost feel like (volume increase) you've been here before? Oh, how am I gonna be an optimist about this? Oh, how am I gonna be an optimist about this? But if you close your eyes, ay oh, ay ay oh, ay oh, ay ay oh, ay ay oh, ay oh.” Then the song continues. See the riff? That is a taste of Bad Blood by Bastille. The album Bad Blood also reflects on Bastille in an interesting way. Bastille has incredible musical skill, but they also show signs of guilt, sorrow, and depression in this album. They are somewhat showcasing themselves in a way that only some people would …show more content…
That’s fine, everyone has their own opinion. However, most people would listen to the tracks and think, “Wow, they put a lot of work into this album,” or, “This band really understands me as a person.” The album is very unique: Some of the things that we lose are mental or physical, and Bad Blood has songs about both. Take “Flaws.” The music video starts with a policeman writing down a report for a dead man (Dan Smith) on the beach; the dead man being covered in a sack beside him. The dead man gets up and walks to the boardwalk to review his sins. When the song slowly fades out, he ducks back under his sack, and the video ends. Compared to another big band in the music industry, Imagine Dragons, they aren’t all that different. For one thing, both of the band’s main vocalist’s name is Dan. Besides that, they both concentrate on the parts of life that matter, and their songs aren’t always upbeat and hip-hop, which is what most popular musicians are doing today. Both bands were extremely successful, and people will agree that both have produced a variety of great