Grammy-nominated, Brit Award-winning songwriter, composer and Bastille frontman Dan Smith has announced he is joining forces with Ralph Pelleymounter (To Kill A King) for a new album project Misfits Together.
Set to be released via Best Laid Plans Records/Tequila King Records/Abbey Road Recordings on March 12, 2027, an official press release stated the project would be “unbound by genre” and “inspired by the lives and relationship of Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller.”
Misfits Together has been produced by multi-instrumentalist, Will Bloomfield, and was recorded over the summer of 2025 at Bloomfield’s Dairy Studios in Brixton, with additional sessions in Suffolk and at London’s iconic Abbey Road Studios. It also features performances from Bastille collaborator, Moira Mack, alongside long-time Bastille live guitarist, Charlie Barnes and rising artist, Ruti.
Alongside the album, Leicester’s Curve Theatre has announced the world premiere of Misfits Together, a new musical with songs featured from the record, created by Dan Smith (Music and Lyrics), Ralph Pelleymounter (Music and Lyrics) and Charlotte Bogard Macleod (Book).
Directed by Curve Artistic Director Nikolai Foster, the production will run in Curve’s Studio Theatre from Saturday September 4 to Saturday October 2, 2027.
Speaking about the project, Dan Smith said: “We’re so excited to be releasing these songs as we first heard and wrote them. They continue to morph and change for the stage as the show develops, and naturally they’ll be sung and represented by other people, so we loved the idea of sharing where they started, performed by us.”
He continued: “We’re really proud of this album and have loved the recording process. We’ve been lucky to work with so many brilliant musicians and artists: Moira, Ruti, Charlie, and to have Will as the producer helping realise the sound of the album and turn our demos into what you’ll get to hear over the coming months. We wanted to present these songs as they are now and give people a chance to get to know the music before the Misfits Together storytelling expands, becoming the Made at Curve musical the world will see in autumn 2027 (which is something we can’t believe we get to say!).”
Ralph Pelleymounter added: “This is a 75-year-old story and yet it still feels so relevant: the polarising politics, the sexism, the threat of career-ending blacklists, all feel like they could be from today's newspapers. We wanted the music to reflect this, so we created a collection of songs that we hope to feel modern and timeless. This is the first time Dan and myself have written songs for a musical and we enjoyed the sense of freedom and play that comes with exploring a brand-new creative medium. As a guitarist, I’ll often put myself in a tuning new to me to find inspiration, this was like that but on an entirely new level. During this entire process there was this weight of responsibility—I know we all felt—that comes with telling other people’s stories, especially when, as with Marilyn, someone died so young and so were robbed of the chance to tell their own. I hope we’ve brought new life to this poignant, powerful story.”
Photo: (L-R) Dan Smith, Moira Mack, Ralph Pelleymounter
Credit: Frank Maddocks V
