Natasha Khan has released her new Bat For Lashes album Lost Girls today. Check it out on New Music Friday below.
In our review, we concluded that while Khan has ‘always stood apart from the crowd, on Lost Girls she finds herself standing that little bit closer’. It opens:
“Using the album as a form of story-telling has long been Natasha Khan’s preferred approach.”
“On 2009’s Mercury-nominated Two Suns she was inhabiting the character of Pearl, a femme fatale. Three years ago on The Bride the perspective was of a woman whose fiancé dies on the day of their wedding. It’s a useful tool, allowing Khan to put her emotions on display whilst hiding behind the veil of a concept album.”
“The approach is being used once again on this fifth album, but the music has been given something of an overhaul. Khan relocated to LA a few years ago and this was initially conceived as a script for an 80s-set film (the title gives a reasonable insight into her thought process regarding the style of the film). Logic dictates that the music has to fit accordingly, and so it does.”