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

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.

^^^ 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.

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