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Bat for Lashes- Daniel Wow, wow, wow! I bought and quite liked Fur and Gold a few years ago, and I recently heard that another album was due soon. I checked out the video for the first single and was blown away.
This is the kind of enduring and magical song that would have been a classic in the 80s. Its impact lingers much longer than the duration of the song, and it's deceptively catchy. After listening to it twice, it was in my head all night! For some reason it reminds me a bit of Kate Bush. Behold the fantastic "Daniel"! Feel free to join in the Prince Album Poll 2018! Let'a celebrate his legacy by counting down the most beloved Prince albums, as decided by you! | |
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Moonbeam said: For some reason it reminds me a bit of Kate Bush.
At first it sounds like a cover of kate's cover of Elton John But then, the sound and the clip choreography are obviously "suggested" by running up that hill. That said, loved it at first hearing  | |
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PANDURITO said: Moonbeam said: For some reason it reminds me a bit of Kate Bush.
At first it sounds like a cover of kate's cover of Elton John But then, the sound and the clip choreography are obviously "suggested" by running up that hill. That said, loved it at first hearing I thought you'd like it!  Feel free to join in the Prince Album Poll 2018! Let'a celebrate his legacy by counting down the most beloved Prince albums, as decided by you! | |
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i love that video! especially the end. the song was written with the karate kid in mind and i love that she falls into his arms at the end of the video. 
superb song as well. it's my fav from the new album. i was just listening to the album when i saw this thread. great great great great great! makes you wonder why this kind of music is not topping the charts. sad, really. and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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This song is pure delight!! 
I love Bat for Lashes and can not wait to get my hands on the new album. Her music is so ethereal, I could listen to her sing the phonebook! If you will, so will I | |
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thekidsgirl said: This song is pure delight!!
I love Bat for Lashes and can not wait to get my hands on the new album. Her music is so ethereal, I could listen to her sing the phonebook! indeed  her voice is sooooo beautiful.and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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IstenSzek said: thekidsgirl said: This song is pure delight!!
I love Bat for Lashes and can not wait to get my hands on the new album. Her music is so ethereal, I could listen to her sing the phonebook! indeed her voice is sooooo beautiful.did you get an advanced copy of the album!? What details can you share?  If you will, so will I | |
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thekidsgirl said: IstenSzek said: indeed her voice is sooooo beautiful.did you get an advanced copy of the album!? What details can you share? hasn't the album been officially released yet? 
i've had a copy for about a month now and it's very cool. although, i must say, it's not as experimental or weird as her debut. all the songs are good and there's really nothing to be negative about but it's still less magic than the first one. the songs are a bit slower and a bit less melodic for the best part of the album. still, it's been on heavy rotation and i do love it and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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IstenSzek said: thekidsgirl said: did you get an advanced copy of the album!? What details can you share? hasn't the album been officially released yet?
i've had a copy for about a month now and it's very cool. although, i must say, it's not as experimental or weird as her debut. all the songs are good and there's really nothing to be negative about but it's still less magic than the first one. the songs are a bit slower and a bit less melodic for the best part of the album. still, it's been on heavy rotation and i do love it It's out April 6th  !!
I'm scared now though! The weird/magical aspect was possibly what I enjoyed most about the first album...I hope she's not watering herself down How do you like the "Pearl" songs? (evidently this is her alter-ego  )If you will, so will I | |
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thekidsgirl said: How do you like the "Pearl" songs? (evidently this is her alter-ego
)the what now?  and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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IstenSzek said: thekidsgirl said: How do you like the "Pearl" songs? (evidently this is her alter-ego
)the what now? I was reading an interview she gave in a magazine, and she was saying that she was like in character as a bitchy blonde named Pearl when she wrote some of the songs....
Lemme try to find the article online, brb... If you will, so will I | |
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ok, here we go...
You're probably familiar with Natasha Khan, aka the mastermind behind Bat for Lashes, aka that unicorn-loving hippie-goth chick who broke out with 2006's genuinely haunting Fur & Gold. But you are probably not familiar with Pearl, Khan's "destructive, self-absorbed, blonde, femme fatale" alter ego. (Sounds like somebody got a little too into I Am...Sasha Fierce.) Khan and Pearl will do battle all over Bat for Lashes' new album, Two Suns, due out on Astralwerks April 6.
Think split personality albums can be kinda pretentious? Well, you probably shouldn't read this next sentence: A press release goes on to describe Pearl as a "direct foil to Khan's more mystical, desert-born spiritual self" and the end of the LP finds Khan "confronting the end of the illusory world and prepare for wherever the world will take her next." And here we thought Pearl was just the go-to moniker for all 1950s receptionists. http://pitchfork.com/news...%20Lashes/ ...so do any songs sound dramatically different from the rest? If you will, so will I | |
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thekidsgirl said: ok, here we go...
You're probably familiar with Natasha Khan, aka the mastermind behind Bat for Lashes, aka that unicorn-loving hippie-goth chick who broke out with 2006's genuinely haunting Fur & Gold. But you are probably not familiar with Pearl, Khan's "destructive, self-absorbed, blonde, femme fatale" alter ego. (Sounds like somebody got a little too into I Am...Sasha Fierce.) Khan and Pearl will do battle all over Bat for Lashes' new album, Two Suns, due out on Astralwerks April 6.
Think split personality albums can be kinda pretentious? Well, you probably shouldn't read this next sentence: A press release goes on to describe Pearl as a "direct foil to Khan's more mystical, desert-born spiritual self" and the end of the LP finds Khan "confronting the end of the illusory world and prepare for wherever the world will take her next." And here we thought Pearl was just the go-to moniker for all 1950s receptionists. http://pitchfork.com/news...%20Lashes/ ...so do any songs sound dramatically different from the rest?
lol. i didn't know about this. the album just sounds like it's natasha all the way but with this new info i'm gonna have to listen a bit closer and see if i can make out which songs are pearl. although i guess "pearl's dream" is an obvious one, lol. and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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by the way this "pearl" sounds more like annie lennox's alter ego for
"savage" than beyonce's sasha fierce imo. cool. and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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IstenSzek said: by the way this "pearl" sounds more like annie lennox's alter ego for
"savage" than beyonce's sasha fierce imo. cool. Yeah, I cringe every time I see her juxtaposed with Beyonce, just because of the whole alter ego thing 
I haven't heard Savage, but now I'm interested 
oh and let me know if the songs sound different to you, know that you know that "Pearl" wrote some of them If you will, so will I | |
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oh, that's awesome! definitely going to check her out.
but is anyone else slightly put off by solo acts with stage names that make them seem like they should be a band? | |
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errant said: is anyone else slightly put off by solo acts with stage names that make them seem like they should be a band?
Personally, we don't find it annoying | |
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