Scott Walker duets with Khan on The Big Sleep
Stick that in yer pipe and smoke it, Scottsnobs
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Friday, 19 December 2008 12:11 (fifteen years ago) link
still loving this album - not getting the hating
― baaderonixx, Friday, 19 December 2008 12:50 (fifteen years ago) link
New Bat For Lashes – The First Listenhttp://bit.ly/oLpCBy Luke Lewis, NME
― djmartian, Thursday, 15 January 2009 19:14 (fifteen years ago) link
new Bat for Lashes track: glass
now streaming at dazed digital - scroll to 3rd track on streaming playlisthttp://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
― djmartian, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:03 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― smash your phonograph in half, Saturday, 31 January 2009 15:37 (fifteen years ago) link
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
School of Seven Bells to support on April tour! How happy does that make me?
― The Boring Machine (Masonic Boom), Saturday, 31 January 2009 19:33 (fifteen years ago) link
This new album is so gloriously 80s. The Scott Walker track is gorgeous, indeed.
― Turangalila, Monday, 23 February 2009 11:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw an interview with him and Regina Spector somewhere that made me want to kill myself as an artist
― 210 (Jackie Wilson), Monday, 23 February 2009 11:13 (fifteen years ago) link
<3 "Daniel"
― Turangalila, Monday, 23 February 2009 11:17 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious xkcd comics), Monday, 23 February 2009 11:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Very anxious to hear the new one. Pulled out Fur and Gold last night and I think it still sounds fantastic.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 13:53 (fifteen years ago) link
can this album live up to the sheer dazzling beauty of the cover?
― Bernard's Butler (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link
http://wannabeablog.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/bat-for-lashes-two-suns-2009.jpg
― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Sheer awe-inspiring magnificence.
― Bernard's Butler (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 14:14 (fifteen years ago) link
not feeling the cover for the moment
― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 14:23 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― djmartian, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 14:29 (fifteen years ago) link
This fucking album
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 26 February 2009 08:28 (fifteen years ago) link
not feeling the cover, loving the record
― cutty, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link
daniel, siren song, yeah
she is totally mining kate's 80's sounds, no?
― cutty, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 23:52 (fifteen years ago) link
the cover photo looks like david lachapelle and the logo looks like America's Best Dance Crew
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Thursday, 5 March 2009 00:02 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― cutty, Thursday, 5 March 2009 00:09 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ 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!
― Dances With Psychedelic Owls (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 5 March 2009 00:09 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 17:04 (fifteen years ago) link
You people are bonkers! That cover rules. The "Daniel" single cover is even better:
http://stereogum.com/img/batforlashes_daniel.jpg
― Shannon Whirry & the Bad Brains, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 17:55 (fifteen years ago) link
That cover is awesome! She's absolutely gorgeous.
― legendary North American forest ape (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Daniel cover indeed awesome. Keeping up with the SoCal Fleetwood Mac vibe
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link
LARUSSO?
― cutty, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link
"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!
― daavid, Sunday, 15 March 2009 05:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Her cover of "A Forest" is about the only thing worth a damn on whichever one of the Cure tributes it's on.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 March 2009 05:45 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― deveraux billings (schlump), Sunday, 15 March 2009 06:02 (fifteen years ago) link
LARUSSO?― cutty, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 23:38 (4 days ago)
― cutty, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 23:38 (4 days ago)
― just sayin, Sunday, 15 March 2009 10:23 (fifteen years ago) link
i've listened to "moon and moon" roughly 100 times since first hearing it yesterday.
― akm, Monday, 16 March 2009 17:09 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Two hands in the air, that's the Lampard Skank (Matt DC), Monday, 16 March 2009 19:11 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't know if this is worth my time or not
― Surmounter, Monday, 6 April 2009 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link
nope
she can basically be dismissed with the words "you, sir, are no kate bush"
― lex pretend, Monday, 6 April 2009 19:27 (fifteen years ago) link
whew, thx. i suspected.
― Surmounter, Monday, 6 April 2009 19:28 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― lex pretend, Monday, 6 April 2009 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link
dang lex you don't hold back
― Surmounter, Monday, 6 April 2009 19:30 (fifteen years ago) link
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"
― I DIED (deeznuts) (J0rdan S.), Monday, 6 April 2009 19:31 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― lex pretend, Monday, 6 April 2009 19:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Two Suns now on Spotify:http://open.spotify.com/album/7cj1dERc5yhFBqtxlRYGSe
I'm liking it. Not loving it... yet.
― DavidM, Monday, 6 April 2009 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link
bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahaha
― Surmounter, Monday, 6 April 2009 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link
xp
plus points, i guess, for coming from a famous pakistani squash dynasty though
― lex pretend, Monday, 6 April 2009 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link
lol squash
― I DIED (deeznuts) (J0rdan S.), Monday, 6 April 2009 19:43 (fifteen years ago) link
liking this so far
― baaderonixx, Monday, 6 April 2009 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link
for a second I was like "I thought squash were only native to the americas"
― The-Reverend (rev), Monday, 6 April 2009 22:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I just listened to Lost Girls again the other day. Shame that one was so underrated.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 03:41 (three years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 03:44 (three years ago) link
Ooh, Sexwitch is great. Wonder why I memory-holed it.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 03:59 (three years ago) link
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"!
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 03:59 (three years ago) link
"Laura" might be my favorite song of hers.
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 13:14 (three years ago) link
did anyone ever figure out who the subject of that song (not, according to NK, named "laura") is
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 13:43 (three years ago) link
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?
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 15:05 (three years ago) link
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
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 15:07 (three years ago) link
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.
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 15:12 (three years ago) link
her voice is very soothing to me
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 15:20 (three years ago) link
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.
― akm, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 15:25 (three years ago) link
becoming a bit of a stoner has really emphasized this aspect for me
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 18:58 (three years ago) link
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.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 19:38 (three years ago) link
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)
― akm, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 20:06 (three years ago) link
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.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 20:41 (three years ago) link
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.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 20:51 (three years ago) link
Lost Girls is heavily underrated at large
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 22:44 (three years ago) link
hmm turns out fur and gold is excellent, feel dumb for overlooking it for years
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 23:31 (three years ago) link
it's all underrated and it's so weird we don't have a thread for her.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 6 May 2021 00:00 (three years ago) link
. 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
― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 May 2021 17:13 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAMO6HHfsdM
i like this
― ufo, Thursday, 22 February 2024 20:40 (three months ago) link
oh wow, I had pretty much given up on new music from her
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 22 February 2024 20:44 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_ahoz_pwtI
quite nice
― ufo, Thursday, 25 April 2024 01:24 (one month ago) link