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The Last Dinner Party take us on “the endless carousel of being in a relationship you know you shouldn’t be in” on new ‘Help(2)’ song ‘Let’s Do It Again!’

February 17, 2026 at 12:14 PM
By Liberty Dunworth
The Last Dinner Party take us on “the endless carousel of being in a relationship you know you shouldn’t be in” on new ‘Help(2)’ song ‘Let’s Do It Again!’
“It's such an honour to be included on this record for a cause that is so close to our hearts” The post The Last Dinner Party take us on “the endless carousel of being in a relationship you know you shouldn’t be in” on new ‘Help(2)’ song ‘Let’s Do It Again!’ appeared first on NME.

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“It's such an honour to be included on this record for a cause that is so close to our hearts” The post The Last Dinner Party take us on “the endless carousel of being in a relationship you know you shouldn’t be in” on new ‘Help(2)’ song ‘Let’s Do It Again!’ appeared first on NME. This article provides comprehensive coverage and analysis of current events.
“It's such an honour to be included on this record for a cause that is so close to our hearts” The post The Last Dinner Party take us on “the endless carousel of being in a relationship you know you shouldn’t be in” on new ‘Help(2)’ song ‘Let’s Do It Again!’ appeared first on NME. NewsMusic News The Last Dinner Party take us on “the endless carousel of being in a relationship you know you shouldn’t be in” on new ‘Help(2)’ song ‘Let’s Do It Again!’ “It's such an honour to be included on this record for a cause that is so close to our hearts” By Liberty Dunworth 17th February 2026 The Last Dinner Party live at Reading 2024. Credit: Andy Ford for NME The Last Dinner Party have shared a lovelorn, passionate new track called ‘Let’s Do It Again!’, which they wrote for the new War Child ‘Help(2)’ charity album. READ MORE: The Last Dinner Party’s lessons from the inferno: “We know our limits better now” The star-studded album is set for release on March 6 via War Child Records, and will raise funds and awareness for young people whose lives have been affected by war and conflict. Visit here to pre-order. Advertisement The first taster arrived at the start of the year when Arctic Monkeys shared the single ‘Opening Night’ – their first new music since 2022 – and last week (Thursday February 12), Damon Albarn, Grian Chatten and Kae Tempest shared the stirring new track ‘Flags’. Now, another preview of the album has been shared in the form of The Last Dinner Party’s contribution. Their song, ‘Let’s Do It Again!’, was recorded at Angel Studios and produced by James Ford and Animesh Ravel. The track follows on from the success of their second album ‘From the Pyre’, and sees the BRIT-winners lean into ethereal, swirling instrumentals, as singer Abigail Morris delivers powerful, theatrical vocals. “Screaming down the phone/ I hear my middle name like a crossbow/ Write a poem, grow up/ Nobody knows me like you,” she sings, building up to the euphoric chorus: “Just let me love you again/ I will try so much harder/ Believe me, baby/ I’ll make it worth your while.” Check it out below, as well as a clip from inside the studio. Recommended The clip from the studio comes as filmmaker and Academy Award Winner Jonathan Glazer worked with Academy Films for art direction for ‘HELP(2)’, handing the cameras over to children in order to see the world through their eyes. It includes footage of what they saw in the studios, as well as footage from those on the ground in Ukraine, Gaza, Yemen and Sudan. “It’s such an honour to be included on this record for a cause that is so close to our hearts,” The Last Dinner Party shared. “The song is about the endless carousel of being in a relationship you know you shouldn’t be in, but giving in to the inexorable tug of returning every time you leave. Advertisement “We’d like to say a huge thank you to War Child for asking us to be a part of the project and to James Ford for producing us, it was such a joy to work with him again!” The new 2026 album is produced and stewarded by James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Gorillaz, Florence + The Machine, Blur, Pet Shop Boys), and was recorded through “a close collaboration with Abbey Road Studios” mostly during one week in November 2025. It comes following the original ‘Help’ record for War Child, which was released in 1995 and featured Oasis, Blur, Radiohead, Orbital, Portishead, Massive Attack, Suede, Sinéad O’Connor, Manic Street Preachers, The Boo Radleys and more, and raised over £1.25million for the non-profit organisation. Other albums by War Child have included 2002’s ‘1 Love’, 2003’s ‘Hope’, 2005’s ‘Help!: A Day in the Life’ and 2009’s ‘War Child Presents Heroes’. After ‘Flags’ was released, Gorillaz and Blur star Damon Albarn revealed that it had a star-studded choir providing backing vocals, including Johnny Marr, Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker, The Libertines’ Carl Barat, Declan McKenna, English Teacher, Black Country, New Road, Nadia Kadek, and more. He is also set to feature on Pulp’s contribution to the album, delivering backing vocals in their currently unreleased song ‘Begging For Change’. Other huge names featured on ‘Help(2)’ include Anna Calvi, Arlo Parks, Arooj Aftab, Bat For Lashes, Beabadoobee, Beck, Portishead‘s Beth Gibbons, Big Thief, Cameron Winter, Blur’s Graham Coxon, Depeche Mode, Dove Ellis, Wolf Alice‘s Ellie Rowsell, Foals, Greentea Peng, King Krule, Nilüfer Yanya, Olivia Rodrigo, Pulp, Sampha, Wet Leg, Young Fathers, and other members of Fontaines D.C.. 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