Bat For Lashes

Behind Bat For Lashes is a person, Natasha Khan, an English artist of Pakistani origin, from the family of those who make it all alone (or almost). It all starts with the single The Wizard which she released in digital version via DIS Records (label of the British musical webzine Drowned in Sound), as well as in 7'' vinyl via her own She Bear Records edition. In the wake she signed with Echo who released Fur and Gold in September 2006, the label facing big financial worries, she is transferred to Parlophone Records which reissues Fur and Gold in 2007, although very personal the dark, sensual and fantasmagorical universe of this first album brings rapprochements with Kate Bush, Cat Power, PJ Harvey, Bjork or Fiona Apple. Some artists content themselves with very little, Natasha Khan does not hide it, she has a lot of ambition and leads her career in this direction, therefore everything goes very quickly, in less than a year and a half she will be boosted by criticism, programmed at the Glastonbury Festival, and will make the first part of Radiohead. Bat For Lashes leaves for his next opus to seek inspiration in Joshua Tree National Park, before returning to New York to record it, Two Suns is a concept album based on Pearl the ego-centric alter, adventurer that she developed during her stay in the desert, more electro than her predecessor, this second mischief contains collaborations with Scott Walker and Yeasayer. In early 2010 after a first-part tour of Coldplay in South America, she recorded Let's Get Lost in duet with Beck, just after announcing that she was composing new titles. It will take until October 2012 to discover The Haunted Man , an album that she took more time to wallow facing many lacks of inspiration, which she will fill through drawing, dance or even cinema, Lilies being for example directly inspired by the film Ryan's Daughter (1970), this project both sober and sophisticated offers a synthetic side of Khan's music; This third galette opens more clearly the doors of the United States or she will make the first part of Depeche Mode during her North American tour. Two collaborations followed, one with Jon Hopkins on the title Garden's Heart from How I Live Now, and the other on The Selfish Giant from Everyday Robots solo album by Damon Albarn.
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