Bastille invites listeners to escape in 'Give Me The Future'

With techno beats, '80s retro futuristic tones and sweeping production, Bastille's 13-track 'Give Me the Future' dives into the world of science-fiction, exploring the way technology can be a tool for escape.

So they enlisted the help of producer and OneRepublic front man Ryan Tedder to narrow down the tracks. The songs Tedder picked were futuristic leaning and a concept album began to take shape. With techno beats, '80s retro futuristic tones and sweeping production, Bastille's 13-track "Give Me the Future" dives into the world of science-fiction, exploring the way technology can be a tool for escape.

Plug into a different world -- be whoever you want to be, go wherever you want to go, leave reality behind.

This is the world Bastille creates on their fourth LP.

"In deciding that it was sci-fi, it was really liberating," said frontman Dan Smith. "It's probably the only time we're going to use these kind of sounds, so let us fully go there, have loads of fun with it, push it further than maybe even we're comfortable and hopefully make something that's all the more interesting for it."