Bat For Lashes new single “Sleep Alone”
by Niki N. Phaser on Aug.10, 2009, under Music News
Bat for Lashes, or Natasha Khan if you prefer her non-stage name, has a new single for us. It’s called Sleep Alone and it will be released on September 7, though the video has already had its premiere. The 80′s feel of her previous videos, Daniel and Pearl’s Dream (from the successful album Two Suns), is ever so present in this new offering. Still, she’s not 80′s the way La Roux is 80′s, but more in the Kate Bush-influenced sense of the word. There is colour and weird narratives, but no disco here. Sleep Alone sounds more like a traditional tune, recorded professionally and Khan’s vocals really contributes to this.
These few retro elements in the music of Bat for Lashes seem more like sincere accidents, that is to say, genuine influence and not an attempt to cash in on a general trend in indie music. She seems very unaware of what is happening in popular music and in that lies a lot of her charm. Artists who have a world of their own are always cooler than those who rule the world.
If you got curious by now and are or have the chance to go to the States, you should know that Bat for Lashes is currently touring there and will be for the rest of August.
