History Music / Bastille

** The This Got Out of Hand! Edition of "Doom Days" includes a cover of Music/REOSpeedwagon's "Can't Fight This Feeling" with orchestral instrumentation.

** "Pompeii" is a very upbeat and danceable song with punchy drums and a catchy synth-line ... that also happens to be about two charred corpses having a conversation and reflecting about the destruction of the city.

* TakeThat: In the video for "Bad Decisions", Dan dresses British prime minister Boris Johnson and gets shot in the haed.

Their sophomore album, ''Wild World'', was released in 2016, to better reviews than their first album, although singles were slightly less successful. Their third album, ''Doom Days'', was released in 2019, to similarly positive reviews and middling commercial success. In 2022, they released their fourth album, "Give Me the Future."

** Their first three albums fit this: "'''B'''ad '''B'''lood", "'''W'''ild '''W'''orld", and "'''D'''oom '''D'''ays". Their fourth album, "Give Me the Future," eschews this naming convention. [[WordOfGod Dan has said]] that this symbolizes the start of a new era for Bastille.

Their sophomore album, ''Wild World'', was released in 2016, to better reviews than their first album, although singles were slightly less successful.

** All of their album titles to date fit this: "'''B'''ad '''B'''lood", "'''W'''ild '''W'''orld", and "'''D'''oom '''D'''ays".

** The This Got Out of Hand! Edition of "Doom Days" includes a cover of REO Speedwagon's "Can't Fight This Feeling" with orchestral instrumentation.

Won't you let it lie?\\

Won't you let it dry?''

* NotSoDifferent: Referenced by name in "Two Evils", in which the singer maintains he is the lesser of two evils but acknowledges he is not very different from the greater one.

* {{Mondegreen}}: Several, thanks to Dan's thick accent and crooning vocal style. Many think it sounds quite good, but it makes the lyrics less comprehensible.
** A group of fans holding up a sign that said "How am I gonna be an octopus about this?"[[note]]The original line being "How am I gonna be an optimist about this?"[[/note]] at the right times during Pompeii eventually distracted Dan Smith enough to sing the wrong line.
** Many misheard "I can't fill it" in "Flaws" as "I can't Phillip", not that it makes any sense.
** A rather strange one: the proper line in the third verse of "4am" is "Time skips, ''balloon'' hits". Many people misheard it as "noon hits" and insisted this is correct, but the line is officially "balloon hits".

* AnimatedMusicVideo: The music video for "Joy" contains strange animation.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: For a long time, "Grip" and "The Descent" were only performed live, never recorded. The versions on ''Other People's Heartache Pt.4'' were different, and didn't cut it in the eyes of many fans. The original of "Grip" was finally released in 2019, but "The Descent" is nowhere to be found.
** The first two parts of ''Other People's Heartache'' are not available from official sources, apparently due to legal issues over the covers present on the mixtapes. Both of them can still be easily found and downloaded though.

* CerebrusSyndrome: In ''Doom Days'', the first four tracks are all quite lighthearted, about happy events at a party. However, "Million Pieces" has LyricalDissonance and talks about the singer ignoring the world's end. The title track is even darker, almost despairing.

* AmbiguousSyntax: "Doom Days contains the line:

* This could mean either ''as if'' it were a bad religion, or ''for example'' a bad religion, so it could be either a metaphor for fake news or a condemnation of a "bad religion".

This could mean either ''as if'' it were a bad religion, or ''for example'' a bad religion, so it could be either a metaphor for fake news or a condemnation of a "bad religion".

Let's stay up all night!\\''

* WhileRomeBurns: "Doom Days" is about people partying while horrible things go on the world.

* LyricalDissonance: "Good Grief", which is an upbeat song about a guy mourning a loved one's death.

* FalseFriend: "Daniel In the Den" involves the singer's betrayal by his friends:

* AninatedMusicVideo: The music video for "Joy" contains strange animation.