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.

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god damnit dom

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Oh yeah, NSFW.

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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.

'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