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Two Suns – Bat for Lashes

Weaving a web of alternate solar systems on her second album ‘Two Suns’ under her assumed stage name of Bat for Lashes, she reminds you in many ways of what a Bjork or a Kate Bush have been and not at the same time. This underlying philosophy of duality is what drives the entire album as well. Bat for Lashes has an established reputation for theatrics – whether in her onstage performances, her recorded sounds or their lyrical content. Received immensely well by critics and fans alike on her Mercury nominated ‘Fur and Gold’, she works on ‘Two Suns’ with a somewhat more mature approach which is natural, and exposes her proclivity towards expanding her creative horizon. As soon as you hit ‘Glass’ the immense quality of her vocals draw her towards her, which continue to haunt you through the pitched to perfection voice she layers atop trips to unseen intergalactic destinations. The lilting quality of ‘Sleep Alone’, the piano led ‘Moon and Moon’, the alternately booming and dropping ‘Siren Song’, the club beats on ‘Pearl’s Dream’ or the languid ‘The Big Sleep’ (on which she collaborates vocally with the legendary Scott Walker) – each track is a journey which takes you into multiple directions and leaves you back at the same spot you started – although the kinetic energy within you might have multiplied over in that period.