November blues 🍂🍄

pomegranates in still life (details)

Natasha Khan (Bat for Lashes) photographed by Logan White for Lost Girls (2019)

three 2015 Japanese stamps depicting illustrations by Beatrix Potter

Vase of lilacs, daisies and anemones, 1887

Bat for Lashes - The Hunger

Bat For Lashes - Kids In The Dark

It’s been much too long since we’ve heard a new one from Natasha Khan, better known as Bat For Lashes. In fact, the last time we had the pleasure of posting new music from the baroque/art pop musician was over two years ago! But stars have aligned and Bat For Lashes is finally back with news of her new album Los Girls as well as a brand new beauty of a tune. Lost Girls arrives September 6th via AWAL Recordings. Kids In The Dark is its first single, a candelabra saturated with Khan’s softly ringing voice and astral bursts of hazy synths. We’ve come a long way since What’s A Girl To Do first enthralled us over a decade ago, though we’re still very much in love with that breakout hit and its dark, Donnie Darko-like music video. New album Lost Girls is described as the mischievous younger sister to Natasha Khan’s las album, The Bride, which was more melancholic and mournful. The new record will be widescreen in scope and it will burst with technicolor intensity. “It’s an album for driving in the dark; holding hands at sunset; jumping off bridges with vampires; riding your bike across the moon.” As if we weren’t already sold on just the fact that it’s a new Bat For Lashes album! Grab the new song, here, and pre-order Lost Girls, here!

Leon WYCZÓŁKOWSKI