Why don't we have a thread on Bat for Lashes?

man has a thread title ever opened itself open to zings more than this one?

probably not

i only have 'the wizard' but it's pretty nice

Just the worst.

At least Cocorosie have comedy political views.

i always confuse cocorosie with cocosuma

Really poorly produced record. Which doesn't help the Goldsmiths-student version of Bush/Bjork level songs.

She should cover "Swallowed"

Hmm, I think I'm missing some background info, since most people seem to hate this record for what it stands for.

Not hearing teh Cocorosie thing at all.

Emma quite liked the album. I listened a couple of times and thought it was alright. I don't get the hatred or the adoration, really.

http://ladybunny.net/blog/uploaded_images/PBpicture-708521.jpg

She's not looking too good in this pic.

god damnit dom

Oh yeah, NSFW.

"oh yeah, nsfw"

You gotta admit, if you get past the penis, it looks a lot like her.

"you gotta admit, for a guy who posts 800 zings a day, I am seldom, if ever, actually funny"

can't see with you in the way (xp)

the only thing that struck me as bad on this album is 'Trophy's lyrics - production seemed OK generally

i heard somewhere that she never washes.

i enjoy the album a fair bit. certainly not worthy of some of the criticsm here. also caught her live in october and was quite impressed how the tunes sounded live. the
what's a girl to do video is spiffy as well.

sorry, just just sounds a bit like an inferior version of broadcast to me.

Going back and listening to this, post all those Kate Nash/Florence & The Machine "I am so QUIRKY me" stuffs, this is sounding a lot better in retrospect. In fact, in the elfen freak-folk stakes, it holds up a heck of a lot better than Ys, too.

Yep. still holding up here.

Back for lashes Exclusive
http://tinyurl.com/45bb3t

Bat For Lashes returns on April 6 with new album Two Suns, PS can reveal.

Produced by Natasha Khan with David Kosten, aka Faultline, it follows her Mercury-nominated debut album Fur And Gold of 2006.

Scott Walker duets with Khan on The Big Sleep, his first work with another act since he produced Pulp's We Love Life album in 2001, after she wrote the song with him in mind. Yeasayer also guest.

revive signals an almost one year anniversary since the last time someone cared about bat for lashes

Um, clearly not, as I revived it last week, as I still care.

Scott Walker duets with Khan on The Big Sleep

Stick that in yer pipe and smoke it, Scottsnobs

still loving this album - not getting the hating

New Bat For Lashes – The First Listen
http://bit.ly/oLpC
By Luke Lewis, NME

new Bat for Lashes track: glass

now streaming at dazed digital - scroll to 3rd track on streaming playlist
http://dazeddigital.com/Music/article/1690/1/Dazed_January_Playlist

brilliant ethereal tribal trippy Bjork-like track. Other comparisons evoke Sinead O'Connor's first album, The Lion and the Cobra

The Scott Walker track is as spooky and unsettling as any Scott fan could hope. Am on first listen of the whole record right now -- appropriately, what it's reminding me of more than anything is the Walker record Climate of Hunter

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

School of Seven Bells to support on April tour! How happy does that make me?

This new album is so gloriously 80s. The Scott Walker track is gorgeous, indeed.

I saw an interview with him and Regina Spector somewhere that made me want to kill myself as an artist

<3 "Daniel"

http://ladybunny.net/blog/uploaded_images/PBpicture-708521.jpg

She's not looking too good in this pic.

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 27 December 2007 18:27 (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

god damnit dom

― nabisco, Thursday, 27 December 2007 18:44 (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Oh yeah, NSFW.

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 27 December 2007 18:45 (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://94.100.116.135/304700001-304750000/304743301-304743400/304743362_5_DMbl.jpeg

Very anxious to hear the new one. Pulled out Fur and Gold last night and I think it still sounds fantastic.

can this album live up to the sheer dazzling beauty of the cover?

http://wannabeablog.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/bat-for-lashes-two-suns-2009.jpg

Sheer awe-inspiring magnificence.

not feeling the cover for the moment

from the tracks i have listened to so far, Bat for Lashes may well win the Mercury Music Prize this year

the track Daniel reminds me of Fleetwood Mac - Sara

This fucking album

not feeling the cover, loving the record

daniel, siren song, yeah

she is totally mining kate's 80's sounds, no?

the cover photo looks like david lachapelle and the logo looks like America's Best Dance Crew

cutty, i saw in yr aim status that you were listening to this. it's totally your type of music. def sounds like kate bush

cover looks stupid. take her and the logo and maybe i'd be into it.

^^^ take her and the logo out ^^^

the cover freaks me out a bit, mainly because she looks like she's covered in massive bruising, like she's been in a car accident. Not really a good look.

Heard one song on the radio last night, and have high hopes for it!

I've been playing this quite a few times while on hols - it is def. more hard work than the previous one and still sounds a bit samey after 4 or 5 spins - and yet, I have no doubt that it's gonna be one of my favorite albums of 09

You people are bonkers! That cover rules. The "Daniel" single cover is even better:

http://stereogum.com/img/batforlashes_daniel.jpg

That cover is awesome! She's absolutely gorgeous.

Daniel cover indeed awesome. Keeping up with the SoCal Fleetwood Mac vibe

LARUSSO?

"Daniel" reminds me a lot of The "A Forest" by The Cure. I guess it's the same bassline. And I love the cover too!

Her cover of "A Forest" is about the only thing worth a damn on whichever one of the Cure tributes it's on.

cover looks like a photoshoot. if it didn't look like a photoshoot it would be great (colours are nice). kinda weirdly flatly centred too.

LARUSSO?

― cutty, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 23:38 (4 days ago)

i've listened to "moon and moon" roughly 100 times since first hearing it yesterday.

I really don't like this - her aesthetic is terrible and the production is so shiny and polished it kind of kills any feeling of intimacy. I want records like this to be creaky and dusty with the sound of instruments creaking in the background, like White Chalk or that Grouper album from last year. This just sounds a bit hollow and empty.

i don't know if this is worth my time or not

nope

she can basically be dismissed with the words "you, sir, are no kate bush"

whew, thx. i suspected.

basically, you can tell exactly what kind of music she wants to make, and it's the sort of music which is GREAT when done well, but she has no personality or spirit in her voice and her songs are meandering, aimless, poorly things. and she thinks she's a lot crazier than she is.

dang lex you don't hold back

i like "daniel" it just seems unfinished to me, like it's really missing a MOMENT + i have to imagine that it's just a misguided attempt at being "understated" and "ethereal"

really i may never be able to get over seeing her live, way before any hype, at a night in an art gallery that a friend had curated, and i was like "aw, i should approve of her out of loyalty to my 15-yr-old self, who would have considered a trip-hop tori amos the very pinnacle of pop music, but really she's a bit shit". and then she paused and asked the audience to "howl like wolves" along to her song, at which point i think i just fled in horror to the room with the booze in it.

Two Suns now on Spotify:
http://open.spotify.com/album/7cj1dERc5yhFBqtxlRYGSe

I'm liking it. Not loving it... yet.

bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahaha

xp

plus points, i guess, for coming from a famous pakistani squash dynasty though

lol squash

liking this so far

for a second I was like "I thought squash were only native to the americas"

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/arts/music/05play.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Bat%20for%20Lashes&st=cse

She tells the NY Times about what she's listening to: Telepathe;D M Stith; Cat Power; Cut Copy; Antony

record is turning out to be better than I expected after several random radio spins.

not getting much love, i see. i really quite like the new album. i don't think it's likely to reveal much more on future spins, but i kind of like how her voice seems to reconcile and bring together all the different sounds we hear from the instruments. not a massive step up from the album before, but it's got something going on.

Exactly. Also, "The Big Sleep" is all kinds of awesome.

Both the problem and the brilliant thing with artists like this is that the bar is set very very high. When it's done well it's genius, otherwise it can sound pretentious and a bit embarassing and Bat For Lashes falls well short of genius.

^OTM

the drums on this record are fantastic. who is it?

She certainly isn't getting much love from her record company here in the States, been to four stores this week and no one seems to be carrying it. I'll probably buy it online this weekend.

Well, I agree that she's not yet at the level of Kate Bush or Tori Amos or Bjork, but if you hold all new music to the standard of the best existing music with which it has any common elements, then you'll never like much. I thought the first Bat for Lashes record had some great moments, and I think this one lives up to its ambition more consistently. Ignore anybody who seems emtionally invested in belittling you for liking this (or anything). Their issue, not yours or hers.

I heard "Daniel" first, so maybe something else will displace it in time, but for the moment it's still my favorite song here. Like some great alternate-history drum-machine demo for Rumours...

this lady is some coffee shop shit

xpost

Well, I agree that she's not yet at the level of Kate Bush or Tori Amos or Bjork, but if you hold all new music to the standard of the best existing music with which it has any common elements, then you'll never like much.

I'm not holding it up to a standard, I'm just saying that this sort of thing is very very difficult to do well and those who do tend to be pretty spectacularly talented.

this lady is some coffee shop shit

kind of a tense atmosphere for your herbal tea drinking time, isn't it?

btw, two suns is way much better than fur and gold

the drums on this record are fantastic. who is it?

― cutty, Friday, April 10, 2009 12:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Chippendale, I'm told.

ha, srsly? most melodic playing i've ever heard from him.

Credits say percussion by Alex Thomas for most songs. Drum programming by Natasha and David Kosten.

no, i've confirmed through internet he plays drums on "glass" and that's the song which i was referring to

she can basically be dismissed with the words "you, sir, are no kate bush"

After four or five listens I can safely say that I like Two Suns more than at least 62% of Ms. Bush's studio albums. This record is aces.

this mention of Chippendale is intriguing me...

had assumed this was some OMM bollocks

I assumed this was some lame indie shit that I wouldn't like, I should probably stop doing that

'cuz I'm loving this right now

well the song "Daniel," haven't heard the album yet.

Well, I agree that she's not yet at the level of Kate Bush or Tori Amos or Bjork, but if you hold all new music to the standard of the best existing music with which it has any common elements, then you'll never like much.

I agree.

"Daniel" is really great, haven't heard the full album yet. But am curious.

Heard a couple other songs and I think she's alright. Strange no one seems to have mentioned the Siouxsie influence, it's pretty clearly there.

I'm just saying that this sort of thing is very very difficult to do well and those who do tend to be pretty spectacularly talented.

There are many spectacularly talented songstresses that don't pull it off. Usually the issue isn't talent, but an excess of "tasteful" influences that consign the whole into the category of "don't need to hear this" or "music for my mother"...

ilxor is right: what pulls BfL back from that abyss is that she has spent her youth immersed in the kind of music I myself did. And Siouxsie is definitely one of them. I heard it first in the chorused bass on the first album, but that soundworld of early-80's production is all over the two.

general prettiness throughout this but nothing else to say about it really. I suppose her voice is too unremarkable compared to the supposedly similar artists mentioned above, and that's a flaw depending on your outlook.

'Two Planets' stands out for me but why that plus 'Moon And Moon' if calling the album Two Suns?

Goes with 'two-hearted dream', Natasha and alter-ego (see back cover), etc.

The best parts on this are where she strikes out and sounds different, the drums on Glass are what hooked me almost immediately. I expected a starbucks till album and it was a smack across the face for being too jaded. There's at least four or five tracks here where she totally confounds expectations and they're just really great little moments. Considering that I really disliked her last album hearing something like Siren Song completely floored me.

Yes, Siren Song is the pefect example. I didn't care too much for her last album as well, but I simply can't stop listening to the new one. There's so many great tunes, brought with such sincerity, such honesty. It really is a surprise for me to like this so much.

streaming this today and really feeling it for some reason. some of the comments upthread about how high the bar is for this type of music totally make sense but right now i'm not even that down on it when she's missing the mark.

I think the Tori Amos-esque "ballads" on the album (see: track 3) don't work nearly as well as the more upbeat, inventive material that is reminiscent of Kate Bush, Siouxsie, Bjork, etc. Overall it's a damn good listen, I just find myself tempted to hit SKIP on the slower material sometimes.

i listened to 5 songs and the obvi bjork rip two planets was def the worst for me. it's weird because i'm only occasionally into kate bush or bjork and have no use for tori (never really listened to siouxsie). so like am i just feeling this album today or is it something i'll actually listen to a good amount?

some of the songs are slower, but i think the sequencing makes up for that a little bit.

the songs might be a bit more molasses than you'd like, but i'm finding there are elements to them that keep things fresh. her vocals can be particularly unpredictable... like "peace of mind" blew me away the first time i heard it. "siren song" starts off slow, but the piano picks it up to almost a whirlwind pace.

also, the bass-line on "pearl's dream" is awesome.

just thought i'd throw that last bit in there.

i don't really get the "sounds too much like kate, bjork" business. i can hear it, sure, but since when were ilxors incapable of divorcing something they're listening to from it's influences? it reads more like lazy criticism.

the fact that you have to juxtapose kate bush and bjork to even come close at describing khan's music sounds more like a compliment than anything else to me. bjork alone has an expansive sound that you really can't pin down. so then how can you say that khan is too derivative when bjork doesn't have a definitive sound?

The only track that sounds Bjork-like to me is "Two Planets," and I think it's partly in the percussive elements and partly in her voice, which takes on a strangely Bjork-ish tone here and there. It doesn't sound like the Sugarcubes or "It's Oh So Quiet" or anything from Medulla, but I could see it as an album track from, say, Homogenic.

"Glass" kicks ass

She/ they were GREAT on Letterman tonight.

made me forget I was watching Letterman on a Fri night right before my bday.

But I digress. Dsniel obv, and just amazing sound. Additional hot chicks (Natasha is BANGIN) playing guitar and huge kettle drum kit. Guy playing the awesome synth parts but annoyingly dressed like Win Butler in a D&G fashion ad.

i really, really love both of these records, one of my favorite discoveries in recent times, can't believe I hadn't heard the first one until the past month. I like the ballads as well, they do sound a bit like tori but they're really good so I'm not going to complain

it was a really really amazing performance

Letterman was loving it too

that was good

yeah that performance sold it for me.

drummer looks like the chick from new young pony club, can anyone confirm/deny

It was announced in March 9 that Sarah Jones will also be drumming on tour with Bat For Lashes.

Saw that Letterman performance last night, just amazing.

I've started being interested in Bat For Lashes, but I fear that I might be only interested her in the same way I am interested in Lily Allen. But I have heard one song by her ("What's a Girl to Do?"), and thought it showed a certain promise.

It's decent, but it's even better if you sing The Cure's "A Forest" over the top of it.

I assumed this was some lame indie shit that I wouldn't like, I should probably stop doing that

― P is for Pussy (The Brainwasher), Sunday, April 12, 2009 2:58 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

'cuz I'm loving this right now

― P is for Pussy (The Brainwasher), Sunday, April 12, 2009 2:58 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

well the song "Daniel," haven't heard the album yet.

― P is for Pussy (The Brainwasher), Sunday, April 12, 2009 2:59 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^^^^^^

Haha, not only the "ballads" are Tori inflected, though. I totally hear Tori on "Pearl's Dream" ("Girl," anyone?) ...

Such a shame Tori has made it so taboo to be publicly liked nowadays. :(

Good job throwing me off the trail on this one ILM. Currently trying not to play the shit out of it, failing dismally.

I saw her last night in SF, she and band were amazing. If the tour isn't already over or sold out, see her.

i finally heard this chick last night -- on KCRW, which makes sense. dunno if the song was typical of all her music, but it sounded like sarah maclachlan singing over a mediocre new order track.

that might be one way to put it, and yet, the result is GRATE

Finally got around to giving this lady a listen. Not only did I like Two Suns right away, but it also happens to be exactly the kind of music I've felt like listening to lately. Didn't realize she had a previous album.

I'd like to go see her live, but she's playing the same night as the Cult and I already have tickets...argh.

Have ignored this up til now because of the name of the band, but finally checked it out when I saw the list of Mercury Prize nominees with YouTube links over at Idolator. "Daniel" was doing it for me until I realized it was because I love "A Forest", and this is essentially that with Feist-vocals over top. Much of the rest of the album seems like modernized Fairport Convention or something. Not sure how much I'm enjoying this apart from the appreciating-the-influence game, ultimately.

Yeah she did a cover of a Forest recently and I retrospectively realized that was a bit of a template for this album. Still love it though

I actually like this a lot more than I expected to!

i finally got a bit sick of this album after listening to it non-stop for about three months.

Recommend the Death Metal Disco Scene remix of Daniel. Came out in March but I've only just discovered it.You can find it on mp3 blogs like Ohh! Crapp - amazing DFAish bassline, Detroit string stabs and euphoric vocal loops.

every time I play this album, I like it more

ditto the first album btw

There’s no doubt, in my mind, that Bat for Lashes’ Natasha Khan is one of this year’s biggest breakout music stars. Her second album, Two Suns, has actually exceeded the massive pre-release hype and her image has proven to be much more integral to her authentic aesthetic than the marketing gimmick that it first seemed to me. Now that she’s earned the buzz, let’s hear what Khan has to say about a few other top artists.

As if I wasn’t jealous of Khan enough, she told the Guardian she saw Michael Jackson in concert at nine years old. She was thrilled with Michael at the time, of course, but not so much with this year’s mainstream pop obsession: “People like (Michael Jackson) just have a high voltage running through them and you don’t see it very often. Compare it now to Lady Gaga or whatever – the latest all-singing, all-dancing sensation – and it’s like, ‘No! Not happening.’ It’s just bollocks.”

I’ve read of a bunch of interviews with Khan where she was very careful not to step on anyone’s toes, but those days are over: “I’m getting fucking tired of people saying that I sound like Tori Amos just because I play the piano,” she said. “It’s just so shallow and weird and inaccurate.”

It's... not inaccurate, though, Ms. Tasha Fierce. I can think of at least five or six instances in which she directly lifts from (early, non-Stepford Wife) Tori in this recent album. Not a bad thing... but yeah, like lex said upthread, she thinks she's crazier than she is.

i finally heard this chick last night -- on KCRW, which makes sense. dunno if the song was typical of all her music, but it sounded like sarah maclachlan singing over a mediocre new order track.

― ultimate sushi baller move (get bent), Sunday, June 14, 2009 10:00 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^

Well, it's September and this is still the best album of the year. Which is a little bit surprising and disappointing.

yeah i get the feeling it's going to place a lot higher on my list than i ever would have thought. but it's a good record and a definite grower.

everytime i hear this girl i think "middling but good, but middling"

"you gotta admit, for a guy who posts 800 zings a day, I am seldom, if ever, actually funny"

― nabisco, Thursday, December 27, 2007 6:51 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

She's opening for Coldplay next month here in São Paulo. They are expecting 50,000 people Coldplay fans. Kind of risky, I guess

She's great live! Dunno about 50,000 people though.

Just saw she's done a cover of "Strangelove" by Depeche Mode for some Gucci campaign (Friendly Fires also did a cover of the same song last year). tbh it's pretty much the same treatment she gave "A Forest" by The Cure a couple years ago, but still nice I guess.

http://soundcloud.com/gucci-guilty/strangelove-mastered-4-5-10

New song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8U70ij87n0

saw her in SF last night, I think maybe the end of the tour? She was mindblowing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ZV_pZZ_V8

Not one of her best, not one of his best. It's okay though.

something's afoot:

https://twitter.com/Bat_for_Lashes/status/633261217969238017

given everything going on in the US right now, that imagery not really hitting me in as positive a manner as it normally would

REDDITOR

okay lol

lol confirmed

lol

sexwitch!

lol. yes please.

I don't know what a sexwitch is, but I want to meet one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=287&v=3_bge44OBx0

idk

I would like this a lot more if the band wasn't called Sexwitch

Actually I take that back, I like this a lot despite the band being called Sexwitch

It's basically "Bat For Lashes and friends do Fever Ray pastiche" songwise, which I'm gonna make time for no matter what stupid name they give themselves

'Sexwich' would've been an improvement, for starters.

album is out today, liking it a lot so far

way more psych-rock than i would've expected. last track is even a skip spence cover

oh okay, it was recorded with the band Toy so that would make sense. only reading up on it now, maybe everyone knew that already

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/24/sexwitch-bat-for-lashes-natasha-khan-like-a-voodoo-exorcism-dan-carey-toy
is an article that was in the Guardian's G2 yesterday talking about the new project with Natasha Khan

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/sep/22/sexwitch-sexwitch-exclusive-album-stream
is the album being streamed from the Guardian site.

The single's marvelous: http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=18105

what's happened to her? I thought the Bride was quite good; but she never toured the US for it, as far as I'm aware; and she seems to have disappeared into ...something. she's been posting odd images on FB for a while that I thought might be a preface to something but now not sure.

what's happened, presumably, is sophistipop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxV4jpe55PY

YESSSSS

So this new album is pretty great, surprised it isn't getting more attention. She's gone down an 80s revival path not unlike Head First-era Goldfrapp, but with much better results. Feels less like pastiche, and more like a fully realized universe.

it's very good. all her albums are good. she is great.

Thanks for the tip-off, been listening to it quite a lot over the last few days.

it's really good, and on trend? I hope it does well for her

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYvx4HYgqHU

Looking forward to seeing her in SF in February; though I've loved the shows of hers I've seen with bands this scaled down approach will be good too (I imagine that's a result of no longer being on a label). I really wish I'd been able to see some of the Bride shows which I don't think she ever toured in the US (she played churches?)

she's released a lot of good albums but this is the first one I've thought was truly great

was she dropped? jeesh.

gonna play this again right now!

“I think the label had high hopes that I’d be more commercial than I was,” she laughs now, “but I proved to myself and everyone else that I’m not.”

Khan’s second album, 2009’s Two Suns, was a concept album about a desert-born alter ego called Pearl. Her third, The Haunted Man, produced “Laura”, one of the best songs of her career, but only charted for a week. By the time she released her fourth, 2016’s The Bride, another concept record, this time about a bride-to-be whose fiance dies in a car crash on his way to the wedding, she could hardly wait to break free from her 10-year deal. And Parlophone weren’t exactly clamouring to keep her. The label’s initially high expectations, she says, “in the end started to work against me. It can be like a cloud that’s over you.”

Last year, the deal finally came to an end. Craving a change of scenery, the 39-year-old upped sticks to LA. She spent her days swimming, painting, going for sunset walks with her adopted dog Janice, teaching meditation to newly released prisoners, and going on long drives to forests with giant redwood trees. Though she says the city has a dark side – “The plastic surgery and the objectification of women that women are doing to themselves on Instagram” – when she stayed on its periphery, it suited her perfectly.

yeah it sounded like an amicable parting of ways. I'm sure it's a lot more work for her to be releasing stuff on her own now but she seems to also have the freedom now to do whatever it is she wants which is good; I hope she can afford to keep doing it.

I think every one of her albums is completely great, this one included. I absolutely love her.

My favorite thing she's done is the Sexwitch EP, utterly captivating. I wish she'd reissue it.

yeah, "Helelyos" is nuts. Reminds me to finish seeking out the original versions of those songs.

Learned a new figure of speech today: upped sticks

I've heard the originals and the idea of taking them and reinventing them as post-punk takes them to a new level.

she's doing a live stream at the moment (requires tix), will be up for a day, you can check her instagram for info. also she's having a baby (not in the livestream)

lol

Natasha being 40 is more wanna feel old for me than remembering having seen Pink Floyd twice in the 80s.

The Piper: Radio 4 - When strange music makes a girl vanish, a detective and her daughter uncover a terrifying force. Thriller starring Tamzin Outhwaite. Soundtrack by Bat For Lashes’ Natasha Khan.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p08wdsyt

been revisiting two suns a lot lately.....what a good ass album

I haven't heard the debut but otherwise I really like all her albums

I just listened to Lost Girls again the other day. Shame that one was so underrated.

Diminishing returns after Two Suns imo, but the only one I haven't listened to since it came out is The Bride. The Haunted Man and Lost Girls are fine. I should check out that Sexwitch album again, because I remember nothing about it.

Anyway, check out the debut. It's nice.

Ooh, Sexwitch is great. Wonder why I memory-holed it.

Returns have only diminished from masterpiece to excellent to very good, and I'm okay with that. Still very fond of The Bride... "Joe's Dream"!

"Laura" might be my favorite song of hers.

did anyone ever figure out who the subject of that song (not, according to NK, named "laura") is

realizing now that i've only heard "what's a girl to do" from the debut (and that's from the video, which is an all-timer). is the rest of the debut similar to that one?

Uh... sort of? I'd say the vibe of the first two albums is very similar with the "big" singles ("What's A Girl To Do", "Daniel") kind of going off on their own thing

gotcha. i'll check it out.

speaking of the "what's a girl to do" video, seems like it's only on youtube in low quality, which is a bummer.

her voice is very soothing to me

I think all of her albums are fantastic to amazing. She's one of my favorite people currently making music. So glad I got to see her live just before the pandemic hit last year.

her voice is very soothing to me

becoming a bit of a stoner has really emphasized this aspect for me

I really liked her debut and then got pretty much obsessed with Two Suns in 2009. Like, listening every day on my walk to class obsessed. I saw her live just before The Haunted Man came out (my first time hearing "Laura" and a bunch of new songs) and she is a great performer indeed, but I somehow lost interest afterward that one. I don't remember much about The Bride, it vaguely registered in my head as 'more of the same'? I don't think I've ever even listened to Lost Girls. Guess I should go back and check those two records out, I think I've had a long enough break and her vibe/aesthetic will feel exciting to my ears again, even if the newest stuff isn't radically different to the oldies.

Lost Girls likely to be more your thing than the Bride, which is more impressionistic (ie: yes it's less memorable, I like it a lot though)

Cool! I just scanned The Bride's tracklisting and the only two tracks I can vaguely recall are Close Encounters (which I must've put on some playlist back then) and Sunday Love (which was on the radio). I'll give Lost Girls a listen tomorrow and perhaps come back to The Bride later.

I haven't revisited Two Suns since it came out, but I really enjoyed it at the time. Her subsequent albums struck me as vaguely pleasant and little more. I should probably give them all another spin.

Lost Girls is heavily underrated at large

hmm turns out fur and gold is excellent, feel dumb for overlooking it for years

it's all underrated and it's so weird we don't have a thread for her.

. Had I been working in the 1960s or 70s I would have ridden a wave of avant garde work into the mainstream

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/may/24/were-losing-sight-of-how-valuable-music-is-im-trying-to-carve-a-new-path-bat-for-lashes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAMO6HHfsdM

i like this

oh wow, I had pretty much given up on new music from her

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_ahoz_pwtI

quite nice

I am listening to “The Dream of Delphi” right now and this is 100% my shit