Album Review: Bat for Lashes Two Suns
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If Bat For Lashes’ debut album, Fur & Gold, was just a warm up, then Two Suns has shattered all expectations in an absurd and near offensive manner. This is the kind of record that requires full and undivided attention. It requires you log out of Twitter, walk away from the Macbook, and simply indulge in it’s infinite, tormented beauty. It will hurt in the end, but it needs and deserves the kind of love that only ends in heartbreak. Her name is Pearl, and she will love you the best way she knows how.
Actually, her name’s Natasha Khan, and I love her. And so will you.
Khan’s soul is a glittering diamond on this record; beautiful, but tortured, exposed and afraid. Her passionate vocals caress the album’s fluid soundscapes with fragile yet assertive melodies and lyrics; “When I run in the dark/Into a place that’s vast/Under a sheet of rain in my heart/I dream of home,” sings Khan on the album’s single, “Daniel.” Her musical style that suggests a more accessible Bjork and a more complicated Tori Amos seems somewhat easy to peg at first, but the crystal towers, golden blues, thousand knights, lonesome moons, and two hearted dreams suggest otherwise.
From the innocent quest for eternal love on album opener, “Glass,” (“In the streets’ Broadways/I seek him whom my soul loveth) to the gut-wrenching, brutally honest fears of “Siren Song,” (It won’t be long ’til you leave/Cause I’m evil, evil), she sways gracefully and effortlessly between feelings, carrying your vulnerable heart along the way.
I know she didn’t mean to, but she broke mine.
Posted: May 8th, 2009 under Reviews.
Tags: Bat For Lashes, Two Suns