She's great live! Dunno about 50,000 people though.
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Friday, 29 January 2010 12:06 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 13:22 (thirteen years ago) link
New song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8U70ij87n0
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 5 June 2011 08:04 (twelve years ago) link
saw her in SF last night, I think maybe the end of the tour? She was mindblowing.
― akm, Monday, 15 April 2013 14:37 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ZV_pZZ_V8
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Monday, 2 September 2013 12:45 (ten years ago) link
Not one of her best, not one of his best. It's okay though.
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Monday, 2 September 2013 12:49 (ten years ago) link
something's afoot:
https://twitter.com/Bat_for_Lashes/status/633261217969238017
― feargal czukay (NickB), Monday, 17 August 2015 13:02 (eight years ago) link
given everything going on in the US right now, that imagery not really hitting me in as positive a manner as it normally would
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Monday, 17 August 2015 14:46 (eight years ago) link
REDDITOR
― Neil S, Monday, 17 August 2015 14:48 (eight years ago) link
okay lol
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Monday, 17 August 2015 14:53 (eight years ago) link
lol confirmed
― feargal czukay (NickB), Monday, 17 August 2015 15:17 (eight years ago) link
lol
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 17 August 2015 15:41 (eight years ago) link
sexwitch!
― piscesx, Saturday, 22 August 2015 14:52 (eight years ago) link
lol. yes please.
― how's life, Saturday, 22 August 2015 18:24 (eight years ago) link
I don't know what a sexwitch is, but I want to meet one?
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 22 August 2015 18:25 (eight years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=287&v=3_bge44OBx0
idk
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 September 2015 13:54 (eight years ago) link
I would like this a lot more if the band wasn't called Sexwitch
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Friday, 18 September 2015 13:57 (eight years ago) link
Actually I take that back, I like this a lot despite the band being called Sexwitch
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Friday, 18 September 2015 13:58 (eight years ago) link
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
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Friday, 18 September 2015 14:02 (eight years ago) link
'Sexwich' would've been an improvement, for starters.
― Too Many Butts (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 September 2015 14:12 (eight years ago) link
album is out today, liking it a lot so far
― Ray Chard (NickB), Friday, 25 September 2015 14:26 (eight years ago) link
way more psych-rock than i would've expected. last track is even a skip spence cover
― Ray Chard (NickB), Friday, 25 September 2015 16:11 (eight years ago) link
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
― Ray Chard (NickB), Friday, 25 September 2015 16:40 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/24/sexwitch-bat-for-lashes-natasha-khan-like-a-voodoo-exorcism-dan-carey-toyis 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-streamis the album being streamed from the Guardian site.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 26 September 2015 10:50 (eight years ago) link
The single's marvelous: http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=18105
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 26 September 2015 12:16 (eight years ago) link
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.
― akm, Monday, 27 November 2017 05:29 (six years ago) link
what's happened, presumably, is sophistipop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxV4jpe55PY
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Monday, 10 June 2019 20:09 (four years ago) link
YESSSSS
― akm, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 06:33 (four years ago) link
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.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 8 September 2019 06:01 (four years ago) link
it's very good. all her albums are good. she is great.
― akm, Sunday, 8 September 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
Thanks for the tip-off, been listening to it quite a lot over the last few days.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 10:19 (four years ago) link
it's really good, and on trend? I hope it does well for her
― maffew12, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 10:38 (four years ago) link
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?)
― akm, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:22 (four years ago) link
she's released a lot of good albums but this is the first one I've thought was truly great
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
was she dropped? jeesh.gonna play this again right now!
― maffew12, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link
“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.
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.
― Number None, Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
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.
― akm, Thursday, 28 November 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
My favorite thing she's done is the Sexwitch EP, utterly captivating. I wish she'd reissue it.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 29 November 2019 00:12 (four years ago) link
yeah, "Helelyos" is nuts. Reminds me to finish seeking out the original versions of those songs.
― maffew12, Friday, 29 November 2019 00:16 (four years ago) link
Learned a new figure of speech today: upped sticks
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 29 November 2019 01:17 (four years ago) link
I've heard the originals and the idea of taking them and reinventing them as post-punk takes them to a new level.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 29 November 2019 02:16 (four years ago) link
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)
― akm, Saturday, 16 May 2020 21:11 (three years ago) link
― DJP, Monday, 18 May 2020 13:48 (three years ago) link
Natasha being 40 is more wanna feel old for me than remembering having seen Pink Floyd twice in the 80s.
― Noel Emits, Monday, 18 May 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link
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
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 13 November 2020 01:25 (three years ago) link
been revisiting two suns a lot lately.....what a good ass album
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 02:11 (two years ago) link
I haven't heard the debut but otherwise I really like all her albums
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 03:20 (two 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 (two 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 (two years ago) link
Ooh, Sexwitch is great. Wonder why I memory-holed it.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 03:59 (two years ago) link