Anticipate the new Bat For Lashes album, The Haunted Man

http://www.batforlashes.com/

IT'S BEEN THREE YEARS SINCE THE LAST BAT FOR LASHES ALBUM, BUT WE CAN FINALLY REVEAL THE NEW ALBUM, 'THE HAUNTED MAN', WILL BE RELEASED ON OCTOBER 15TH.

October is a good month for haunting.

about time

Cannot fucking wait for this. I <3 Natasha.

Still don't know what this song's name is, but hope it's on the album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8U70ij87n0

new songs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCk5YIebDTU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6QmtTcWGAw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao_xG4ZyBac

The is the cover that Amazon and a few other places are now showing, nice enough font but hoping it's just a place-holder:

http://www.recordstore.co.uk/media/AbstractArticle/image/WarehouseArticle-66769/Bat-For-Lashes-The-Haunted-Man.jpg

Another new one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV7e50beiFQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERyagJiwZis

Wait, that last one's an old song

http://www.vevo.com/artist/bat-for-lashes?source=instantsearch&orderbyrecent=true

album cover, tour dates: http://pitchfork.com/news/47233-check-out-bat-for-lashes-nsfw-album-cover-plus-new-video-and-new-track-laura/

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/news/47233/de6549aa.jpeg

think i preferred the lettering placeholder.

okay I love this song

Yeah that song is lovely. what is so nsfw about that picture? a bared buttock?

okay lol @ that album cover, tbh I much preferred her "I put everything in my grandmother's closet on" efforts

although maybe that dude was also in her grandmother's closet

Yeah, what's NSFW about that?

I'm pretty tired of non-stop stories, videos, press releases, whatever, simultaneously boasting and warning of being "NSFW." Really, the whole internet is "NSFW," so shut up about it and go about your business.

New song is lovely. Tori-aping still present but this time with some vague 80s power ballad/"Life on Mars" tinge to it that works well with the spare arrangement.

?

I have never once thought of Tori Amos when listening to Bat for Lashes.

re cover: so after hand bra we goot foot knickers now

wait
it's his arm

that cover confuses me

I'm pretty tired of non-stop stories, videos, press releases, whatever, simultaneously boasting and warning of being "NSFW." Really, the whole internet is "NSFW," so shut up about it and go about your business.

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eh I guess some folks have bosses who wouldn't accept "it's the artwork for the new Bat for Lashes album" as an instantly plausible excuse for why you were looking at a photo of two naked ppl, and as such would rather have the option of avoiding that scenario altogether

Johnny Fever, really? Even when, say, Pearl's Dream is basically Tori's "Girl" + "Raspberry Swirl"? There's a lot of other examples which I think also Tim F brought up in some other thread. It's not a bad thing! But to my ears, definitely there.

Got to agree with Johnny, Tori Amos hasn't ever crossed my mind when listening to BFL. The Cure, that's a different story...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8tdm_CMZDw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMzua0mwrVk

I honestly don't see how Tori Amos couldn't cross your mind

Yeah, exactly. It's everywhere in her music, really.

I try not to think about Tori Amos where possible.

Her first four albums are fantastic, tbh.

Anyway, back to Bat For Lashes...

I would be playing this song on repeat if I hadn't just discovered Nightwish

What are you doing instead?

I am listening to Wishmaster and boggling incessantly

Nightwish sounds like some sort of bedwetting remedy you buy from the chemist.

"Moon and Moon" is probably the most Tori-like song by a person who is not actually Tori Amos that there ever was. And I say this as someone who regularly gets annoyed at people collapsing the differences between female artists. But it struck me more as a point on a trajectory for BFL more than a debilitating permanent resemblance.

I really like this new song.

Laura sounds a lot like Working Class Hero doesn't it?

I guess maybe it's like Don't Look Back in Anger/Imagine maybe Lennon just did a lot of chord stuff that's universal... Is there a thread for songs that sound like other songs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Sn4j5eT4nI&

new songs sounding reaal good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXK0Ejzin4c&feature=youtu.be

http://www.noise11.com/news/bat-for-lashes-streams-half-her-new-album-20121010

i've heard all of this and it's great

"a wall" is one of her best songs, i love the hounds of love style backing vox

standouts would be that, laura, lilies, marilyn and the closer

oh yeah, oh yeahhhhhhhh

Why aren't all her songs as good as Laura? It's really annoying.

Cos it's the only one she wrote with the "Video Games" dude? And then only duress, at the request of her label? Strike one to The Man.

^under duress

is that true? its a good song nonetheless

Just found the whole album on Spotify

xp The record label said she needed to go off and write a single but Natasha chose Justin Parker so there wasn't that much duress involved. Good call, The Man.

I assumed Parker was some young LA hotshot but apparently he's an ex-footballer from Lincoln.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/football-flop-who-gave-lana-del-rey-a-shot-at-stardom-may-score-at-last-7654878.html

how is she live? she's playing here the night of my bday and I wonder if it's worth skipping the usual bday shenanigans to see her

I saw her a while back and she was great. Does she still have the girl from ... Ash, was it? Pink hair, I think?

Charlotte Hatherley! Who is now making music under the name "Sylver Tongue" which is a bit Little-Boots-goes-indie and is the support act on the tour.

Fantastic set in Edinburgh the other night. Now she has three albums to drawn on there's no filler. Highlights were Laura (obviously) and the Daniel/Pearl's Dream encore.

"Laura" is pretty amazing; I kind of wonder what a different arrangement and singer would do for "Video Games" given how much I like the former and hate the latter

Lots of these beats sound Dan Snaith-y in some of their subtleties.

wow this is awesome

yup

Brighton show was fantastic, last date of the UK tour playing her adopted hometown and it felt like there was a great deal of warmth between Natasha and the audience. Laura was flat-out amazing, you could have heard a pin drop, but really she puts together a great set entirely now. Only complaint is that that 80% of the crowd were an absolute bunch of stiffs during the dancier numbers.

damned if i can remember the last time i listened to a record twice in the same day.