INDIE four-piece band Bastille will be releasing hugely anticipated second album, Wild World next month and will be performing at the Plymouth Pavilions on Saturday, October 29.

The new album follows the band’s global four million selling, multi-platinum debut, Bad Blood.

Wild World retains the vivid, rich, filmic song-writing of its predecessor but pushes the band’s distinctive sound in exciting new directions. Lyrically, too, it’s a leap forward.

‘If our first album was about growing up and the anxieties surrounding it,’ singer Dan Smith explained, ‘our second is about trying to make sense of the world around you, both as you see it and as it’s presented to you through the media.

‘It’s also about asking questions of the world and of the people in it. We wanted the album to be a bit disorientating — at times extroverted and introverted, light and dark.’

Written by Smith and co-produced with Bastille’s fifth member Mark Crew, Wild World was recorded in the same tiny, South London windowless basement studio where the band recorded its debut. It’s a collection of 14 songs (19 on the deluxe edition) that sees Bastille at their boldest and most daring. Anthemic yet thought-provoking tracks include the fiery, string-laden, The Currents, a poignant and timely song that was written about ‘specific public figures on both sides of the Atlantic, and how it can be hard to believe they can think certain thoughts, let alone say them out loud or get on a podium and broadcast them’ as well as the bombastic Send Them Off which boasts the attitude of a classic hip hop song set against the lyrical narrative and insecurities that are part of Bastille’s own DNA.