She/ they were GREAT on Letterman tonight.
made me forget I was watching Letterman on a Fri night right before my bday.
But I digress. Dsniel obv, and just amazing sound. Additional hot chicks (Natasha is BANGIN) playing guitar and huge kettle drum kit. Guy playing the awesome synth parts but annoyingly dressed like Win Butler in a D&G fashion ad.
― DJ Mr. Face Stabba, M.D. (Whitey on the Moon), Saturday, 2 May 2009 07:22 (fifteen years ago) link
i really, really love both of these records, one of my favorite discoveries in recent times, can't believe I hadn't heard the first one until the past month. I like the ballads as well, they do sound a bit like tori but they're really good so I'm not going to complain
― akm, Saturday, 2 May 2009 17:19 (fifteen years ago) link
it was a really really amazing performance
― Popper, Monday, 4 May 2009 17:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Letterman was loving it too
― carne asada, Monday, 4 May 2009 17:32 (fifteen years ago) link
that was good
― bela fregosi (brownie), Monday, 4 May 2009 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah that performance sold it for me.
― borntohula, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 01:15 (fifteen years ago) link
drummer looks like the chick from new young pony club, can anyone confirm/deny
― cutty, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 14:29 (fifteen years ago) link
It was announced in March 9 that Sarah Jones will also be drumming on tour with Bat For Lashes.
― cutty, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 14:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Saw that Letterman performance last night, just amazing.
― Chris in Belfast, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 12:21 (fifteen years ago) link
I've started being interested in Bat For Lashes, but I fear that I might be only interested her in the same way I am interested in Lily Allen. But I have heard one song by her ("What's a Girl to Do?"), and thought it showed a certain promise.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Sunday, 10 May 2009 21:42 (fifteen years ago) link
It's decent, but it's even better if you sing The Cure's "A Forest" over the top of it.
― ^ Z S on the internet here (Z S), Sunday, 10 May 2009 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I assumed this was some lame indie shit that I wouldn't like, I should probably stop doing that
― P is for Pussy (The Brainwasher), Sunday, April 12, 2009 2:58 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
'cuz I'm loving this right now
well the song "Daniel," haven't heard the album yet.
― P is for Pussy (The Brainwasher), Sunday, April 12, 2009 2:59 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^^^^^^^^
― autogucci cru (deej), Sunday, 10 May 2009 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha, not only the "ballads" are Tori inflected, though. I totally hear Tori on "Pearl's Dream" ("Girl," anyone?) ...
Such a shame Tori has made it so taboo to be publicly liked nowadays. :(
― Turangalila, Monday, 11 May 2009 04:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Good job throwing me off the trail on this one ILM. Currently trying not to play the shit out of it, failing dismally.
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Friday, 12 June 2009 15:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw her last night in SF, she and band were amazing. If the tour isn't already over or sold out, see her.
― akm, Sunday, 14 June 2009 14:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i finally heard this chick last night -- on KCRW, which makes sense. dunno if the song was typical of all her music, but it sounded like sarah maclachlan singing over a mediocre new order track.
― ultimate sushi baller move (get bent), Monday, 15 June 2009 02:00 (fourteen years ago) link
that might be one way to put it, and yet, the result is GRATE
― akm, Monday, 15 June 2009 05:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Finally got around to giving this lady a listen. Not only did I like Two Suns right away, but it also happens to be exactly the kind of music I've felt like listening to lately. Didn't realize she had a previous album.
I'd like to go see her live, but she's playing the same night as the Cult and I already have tickets...argh.
― He was feeling canonical (Bimble), Thursday, 2 July 2009 05:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Have ignored this up til now because of the name of the band, but finally checked it out when I saw the list of Mercury Prize nominees with YouTube links over at Idolator. "Daniel" was doing it for me until I realized it was because I love "A Forest", and this is essentially that with Feist-vocals over top. Much of the rest of the album seems like modernized Fairport Convention or something. Not sure how much I'm enjoying this apart from the appreciating-the-influence game, ultimately.
― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 23 July 2009 14:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah she did a cover of a Forest recently and I retrospectively realized that was a bit of a template for this album. Still love it though
― Gigolo Grasiento (baaderonixx), Thursday, 23 July 2009 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I actually like this a lot more than I expected to!
― Four-TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN! (HI DERE), Thursday, 30 July 2009 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
i finally got a bit sick of this album after listening to it non-stop for about three months.
― akm, Thursday, 30 July 2009 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Recommend the Death Metal Disco Scene remix of Daniel. Came out in March but I've only just discovered it.You can find it on mp3 blogs like Ohh! Crapp - amazing DFAish bassline, Detroit string stabs and euphoric vocal loops.
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 09:39 (fourteen years ago) link
every time I play this album, I like it more
― it's like i have a couple worked up vadges under my arms (HI DERE), Friday, 14 August 2009 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
ditto the first album btw
― it's like i have a couple worked up vadges under my arms (HI DERE), Monday, 17 August 2009 13:56 (fourteen years ago) link
There’s no doubt, in my mind, that Bat for Lashes’ Natasha Khan is one of this year’s biggest breakout music stars. Her second album, Two Suns, has actually exceeded the massive pre-release hype and her image has proven to be much more integral to her authentic aesthetic than the marketing gimmick that it first seemed to me. Now that she’s earned the buzz, let’s hear what Khan has to say about a few other top artists.
As if I wasn’t jealous of Khan enough, she told the Guardian she saw Michael Jackson in concert at nine years old. She was thrilled with Michael at the time, of course, but not so much with this year’s mainstream pop obsession: “People like (Michael Jackson) just have a high voltage running through them and you don’t see it very often. Compare it now to Lady Gaga or whatever – the latest all-singing, all-dancing sensation – and it’s like, ‘No! Not happening.’ It’s just bollocks.”
I’ve read of a bunch of interviews with Khan where she was very careful not to step on anyone’s toes, but those days are over: “I’m getting fucking tired of people saying that I sound like Tori Amos just because I play the piano,” she said. “It’s just so shallow and weird and inaccurate.”
― Turangalila, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 01:27 (fourteen years ago) link
It's... not inaccurate, though, Ms. Tasha Fierce. I can think of at least five or six instances in which she directly lifts from (early, non-Stepford Wife) Tori in this recent album. Not a bad thing... but yeah, like lex said upthread, she thinks she's crazier than she is.
― Turangalila, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 01:47 (fourteen years ago) link
― ultimate sushi baller move (get bent), Sunday, June 14, 2009 10:00 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^^^
― some dude, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 02:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, it's September and this is still the best album of the year. Which is a little bit surprising and disappointing.
― DavidM, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 14:05 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i get the feeling it's going to place a lot higher on my list than i ever would have thought. but it's a good record and a definite grower.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link
everytime i hear this girl i think "middling but good, but middling"
― you have to forgive me (surm), Thursday, 28 January 2010 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
"you gotta admit, for a guy who posts 800 zings a day, I am seldom, if ever, actually funny"
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― thomp, Friday, 29 January 2010 10:41 (fourteen years ago) link
She's opening for Coldplay next month here in São Paulo. They are expecting 50,000 people Coldplay fans. Kind of risky, I guess
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Friday, 29 January 2010 12:01 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (eleven 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