Bat for Lashes
Two Suns
bat for lashes second album sees brighton's natasha khan introducing some special guests notably scott walker and yeasayer and more bizarrely her alterego pearl described by the press release as 'a destructive selfabsorbed blonde femme fatale of a persona who acts as a direct foil to khan's more mystical desertborn spiritual self' more accessible and more expensivesounding than 'fur and gold' this record's key player may not actually be khan but producer david kosten who spent years making fantastically gloomy albums as faultline presumably motivated by a rum succession of events which saw him suffer a collapsed lung get run over by armed robbers and attacked by burglars with coshes and instils 'two suns' with doleful cellos rattling percussion plucked violins and thrillingly loud electronics yet khan also has a terrific voice impressive in range and with an apparently limitless arsenal of ticks and tricks the songs range from kate bush bjork esque spooky childhood reveries and magical piano balladry to dazed glass candy style disco tracks 'two suns' is a record of incredible depth and beauty
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