Bat For Lashes - Two Suns

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5...according to our Phil on Thu 02 Apr, 2009.

I'm well into this new Bat For Lashes album. I never really heard the last one much and when I did hear it I don't think I was that arsed about it. Me being the fickle soul and perhaps the extra exposure to this album (we've had a promo kicking around for a while) means it's had time to sink in. The thing that I really like about this is her song writing..... They're just so damned good! Also there's some duffer from Yeasayer on there, Pearl (who is actually an alter ego of Bat For Lashes who is described as a destructive femme fatale!) and Scott Walker brings his vocal talents on the albums closing track The Big Sleep (no pigeons on this one). There's something really exotic about this record. It has a strange mystical otherworldly feel to it whilst being supremely poppy. The obvious comparisons to Kate Bush still stand for me. I can hear bits of Kate Bush on almost every track but then she's been such a massive influence to so many people you can forgive her for that. Especially as she seems to draw from the Dreaming era which is fucking nuts. There's a fair amount of Fleetwood Mac/ Stevie Nicks on a few tracks as well. the new single Daniel sounds so much like Stevie Nicks/ Fleetwood Mac it's untrue. I guess there's nods to Bjork in there as well. It's a mish mash of ideas which gel perfectly and make Two Suns a great pop album and one I'll be winging home with me tonight. STOP THE PRESS. I've just gone home and listened to the 1st album after swiftly grabbing the last vinyl copy we had and am officially blown away. Don't know quite how I didn't get it before but she's seriously filling in the Kate Bush sized gap in my life which has been empty since Hounds of Love. Ok there's a couple of good tracks on The Sensual World..... Woohoo! Someone new to like!! Fantastic!!

CD Album
1.    Glass
2.    Sleep Alone
3.    Moon And Moon
4.    Daniel
5.    Peace Of Mind
6.    Siren Song
7.    Pearl's Dream
8.    Good Love
9.    Two Planets
10.    Travelling Woman
11.    The Big Sleep

With her dazzling second album, Two Suns, Bat For Lashes is set to assume the mantle of the most dynamic and intriguing pop performer in the UK right now.

Natasha Khan’s debut Fur And Gold was nominated for the 2007 Mercury Music Prize, and earned two Brit Award nominations for Best Breakthrough and Best Female in 2008. The album’s blend of spooky childhood reveries and magical piano balladry caught the imagination of everyone and not just in the music world. Natasha was feted by the fashion crowd, appearing everywhere from Vogue to Dazed & Confused and she recently collaborated with Alexander McQueen’s McQ label on several one-off pieces featured on the Two Suns artwork. As if that weren’t enough, Bat For Lashes has inspired the making of a fantasy film-musical based on the songs from Fur And Gold . Natasha went on to be chosen by The Guardian as one of 2007’s women of the year – the only musician to appear on their list that year. Bat for Lashes was also asked to support Radiohead on their European tour last summer at the band’s personal request, where she assembled a new live band to explore fresh musical forms, before heading out to New York and the Californian desert to write what has now become Two Suns.

4...according to Stuart.

this is the sound that Florence thinks she makes - but journalists seem to like middle class safe kooky and eccentric Florence (with her cover versions) rather than this more intriguing and interesting music and vocalist. like an edgy Kate Bush fronting Arcade Fire or American Music Club. worthy of your listening time for sure!

Rating: 4 out of 5

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