New mixtape of cover songs from Bastille

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By Dan Smith from Bastille in New Music on Tuesday 20 March 2012

I’m in the middle of making our album and started to get a bit worried about how long it had been since we had released something. Mark, the guy who I’m making the album with, had always wanted to make a mixtape, so we decided to do an album of covers. I had done a cover of City High’s What Would You Do? at the end of last year and it got a good response. I’d also been listening to The Weeknd and Frank Ocean a lot, and we wanted to put out something that was as easy to get hold of — and hopefully somewhere near as good — as their mixtapes.

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Bastille’s Overjoyed video: inspired by Twin Peaks

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By Dan Smith from Bastille in New Music on Thursday 17 November 2011

We made our first proper music video a few weeks ago. It is for a song from our new EP called Overjoyed and I had a great time helping out on set. I made a lot of tea and bacon sandwiches and helped charge camera batteries. Very exciting stuff. Our EP is called Laura Palmer, [...]

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