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Bat For Lashes’ Two Suns, Florence & The Machine’s Lungs, and the self-titled debuts from Glasvegas and La Roux are among the nominees for the Barclaycard Mercury Prize, awarded annually to the best album from the United Kingdom or Ireland. While there are some glaring omissions as always (um, Micachu?????), digging around for videos by the nominees revealed a couple of new-to-me acts—the hip-hop artist Speech Debelle, the experimental jazz outfit Led Bib—who proved intriguing on first listen. The nominees, and representative videos, after the jump. More »
Posts Tagged ‘Bat For Lashes’
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The Mercury Prize Honors Most (But Not All) Of The Best British Albums Of The Past 12 Months
10:00 AM on Tue Jul 21 2009 by Maura
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Natasha Khan Stages Her Own High School Musical
10:30 AM on Fri May 29 2009 by Maura
The video for Bat For Lashes’ disco-ish “Pearl’s Dream” is a charmingly ramshackle affair, with Natasha Khan recreating the alternate solar system she normally inhabits on the stage of a small auditorium. She’s confronted by a blonde, shoulder-feather-free version of herself sitting in the audience, but manages to prevail over her less plumaged persona thanks to a very irritable wolf–and a pyro budget that was just big enough. [MySpace via ONTD] More »
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Bat For Lashes Creep Toward The Pop Life
10:00 AM on Tue Apr 7 2009 by Maura
Our look at the closing lines of the week’s biggest new-music reviews continues with a roundup of reactions to Two Suns, the second album by Bat For Lashes, which comes out in the U.S. today:
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Bat For Lashes Glimmer In The Moonlight
3:00 AM on Thu Feb 5 2009 by Maura
The second album from Natasha Khan—who… More »
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No. 28: Natasha Khan Does Not Want You To Be Her Baby
12:00 PM on Wed Dec 12 2007 by Maura
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Hitching A Ride With Bat For Lashes’ Bike Troupe
11:30 AM on Fri Aug 24 2007 by Maura
Bat For Lashes’ clip for “What’s A Girl To Do?” is one of my favorite videos of the year so far–how can you be immune to the charms of a one-take movie that’s completely focused on mask-wearing bike riders executing jumps in unison?–and Paper Thin Walls has a chat with the clip’s director, Dougal… More »
3:33 AM on Thu Aug 2 2007 by Maura
We’re probably the 10,000th music blog to link to this live Bat For Lashes session on Morning Becomes Eclectic, but Natasha Khan is a pretty stunning artist, and I’m still kicking myself for missing her show last week, so this will have to suffice. More »
