Bastille unveils new song "Hangin" from long-awaited 2nd album (video)

 September 23, 2015 - 17:07 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Bastille have stormed back with a huge new track 'Hangin' - taken from their long-awaited second album and the upcoming FIFA 16 game, according to Gigwise.

Complete with Dan Smith's usual knack for one hell of an arena-ready chorus with full-bodied 'woooah' anthemics, 'Hangin' takes their sound in a slightly more guitar-driven and rocky direction.

However, the track is not a single - but a mere taster of what to expect from the follow-up to 2013's Bad Blood.

"We never really wanted to be one thing or make one kind of music - we've always messed around with stuff," frontman Dan Smith told Gigwise about new material last year.

"The influences we have and I have are very, very diverse and maybe quite mish-mash, and I think how it came out (the first album) didn't really represent those types of music," he said.

"Influences for me were much more picky, there was stuff like a drum sound or a hip hop track that I liked - but you don't necessarily hear anything hip hop."

Approaching the second album in a slightly more carefree manner the band appear to be open to the idea of experimenting with both RnB and guitar-driven sounds, Smith said: "Not having any guitars in the first album and then the next one where we do, is, for us a new place to go.

"Obviously it's the most used instrument in the world - but within our sound it could be seen as a rockier direction."

Stating that it was band mate Chris Wood's "obsession with rock music and heavy drum stuff" that influenced it and that it worked well alongside his and Kyle Simmon's love for "current producers, upcoming RnB people and soul singers."

The record is therefore the result of many ideas and inspirations, as Smith admits: "We went into the album process thinking 'let's just do whatever the fuck we want and then when we have a collection of songs together we'll see how it fits and decide what to do with it.'" He continued: "(With this record) we don't want to repeat ourselves at all, we just want to have fun with it and as long as the songs are good, which hopefully they are, that's all we really care about", concluding that the second album will be "quite different from the first."