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
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
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 02:23 (fifteen years ago) link
record is turning out to be better than I expected after several random radio spins.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 02:43 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Charlie Howard, Friday, 10 April 2009 09:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Exactly. Also, "The Big Sleep" is all kinds of awesome.
― Turangalila, Friday, 10 April 2009 09:57 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Friday, 10 April 2009 10:22 (fifteen years ago) link
^OTM
― davek_00, Friday, 10 April 2009 11:21 (fifteen years ago) link
the drums on this record are fantastic. who is it?
― cutty, Friday, 10 April 2009 12:25 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― display names have been changed to protect the innocent (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 April 2009 12:35 (fifteen years ago) link
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...
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 11 April 2009 03:06 (fifteen years ago) link
this lady is some coffee shop shit
xpost
― Adam Bruneau, Saturday, 11 April 2009 03:17 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 11 April 2009 10:00 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Saturday, 11 April 2009 17:22 (fifteen years ago) link
― cutty, Friday, April 10, 2009 12:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
Chippendale, I'm told.
― Tourtiere (Owen Pallett), Saturday, 11 April 2009 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link
ha, srsly? most melodic playing i've ever heard from him.
― cutty, Saturday, 11 April 2009 19:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Credits say percussion by Alex Thomas for most songs. Drum programming by Natasha and David Kosten.
― if, Saturday, 11 April 2009 19:55 (fifteen years ago) link
no, i've confirmed through internet he plays drums on "glass" and that's the song which i was referring to
― cutty, Saturday, 11 April 2009 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Lost Girls is heavily underrated at large
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 22:44 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_ahoz_pwtI
quite nice
― ufo, Thursday, 25 April 2024 01:24 (ten hours ago) link