Doom Days

The title track of Bastille's third album is a foreboding tune about technology and news feeds. Think I'm addicted to my phone My scrolling horror show I'm live-streaming the final days of Rome One tab along, it's pornographic Everybody's at it No surprises, so easily bored Frontman Dan Smith sings about the need to switch off from worrying about the state of the world. He explained: "We wanted (the song) to be really direct and talk about trying to find escapism from our modern anxieties – phone addiction, porn addiction, fake news addiction, climate change denial (to name a few)."

Smith found so much to talk about on the subject that he penned about 50 verses for "Doom Days" before editing it down to the final version.

Speaking to NME, Smith explained that his intention for the song was to address escapism and hedonism as a tool to avoid the things going on in the world and people's own personal daily worries. So Smith set out to write "this rolling script of these worries" and to poke fun at the way we try to escape them. He admitted that personally he spends too much time on his phone. "Anyone that spends time with me will know that and everyone is constantly ripping me for it, which is completely fair enough cos it's a bit awful," Smith said. "So I wanted to address that."