Bat For Lashes Biography

Album number three. In the trajectory of any recording career it's a milestone. But it's one with a mythology so powerful it's become a syndromic cliche around which swirls a dread that threatens to swallow its (supposedly) panicking creator. For plenty of artists the difficult third album can loom like a hurdle of K2-scaled monumentality. How the hell might you tackle it is the question. The answer if you're Bat for Lashes is you simply climb higher and through that conquer your fears.
The creation of Natasha Khan Bat for Lashes first captured hearts way back in 2006 with a set of distinctively haunting and rich darkly phantasmagoric songs ripe with magic realism. Her sensual and gilt-decorated dream world was opened up in two Mercury Music Prize nominated albums the atavistic reverb-drenched Fur and Gold (2006) and 2009's more electronically poppy Two Suns. The latter featured the irresistible Daniel -- which won Ms. Khan an Ivor Novello award for Best Contemporary Song -- and was recorded in London and across America.
In the wake of its success Khan was left in a migratory unfixed state and a not altogether certain frame of mind. Coming off a heavy tour and after the end of a trans-Atlantic relationship she decided some self-nurturing was in order and resolved to take as much time as was needed to make her third album. I felt quite drained and tired creatively Khan remembers so I decided to get back to this really domesticated existence in my flat in Brighton. I felt like I needed to be immersed in nature and have a quiet reflective time. That involved working on dance films writing a script children's book illustrations a spell of volunteer gardening at Charleston House in East Sussex (the Bloomsbury Group's country retreat) and going back to Brighton University for some informal tutorials with her old art teacher and reading recommended books. One of these The Enchantment of Art provided a small epiphany and planted a seed of change in her approach to what was to become The Haunted Man.

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