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#Lashes6Music - help choose the Ultimate Bat for Lashes Playlist
It's been three years since we last heard from Natasha Khan, but this week the lady better known as Bat for Lashes burst back with a brand new track and some eyebrow-raising album artwork which has got everyone talking.
Laura has been everywhere since it was uploaded on Monday, from Pretty Much Amazing to Stereogum, over 100,000 listens on Soundcloud and close to a quarter of a million people having viewed the rather NSFW video. If the excitement carries on, it looks like her new album The Haunted Man - due out in October - could catapult her to superstar status.
At 6 Music we've been championing Natasha from the start, so what better thing to do this week than ask you to pick the ultimate Bat for Lashes Playlist?
You could go for:
* Your favourite tracks from Bat for Lashes’ first two albums, some b-sides or rarieties
* Influences on her music from TV On The Radio to Nick Cave, Siouxsie Sioux, Lou Reed, James Taylor and The Cure
* Collaborators and side projects such as Scott Walker, Yeasayer and Beck
* Bands who make incredible experimental videos
* Or any other connection you can think of
As usual you can plead your case by leaving a comment on this blog or on Facebook, Tweet us using #Lashes6Music, e-mail us or drag a track into our collaborative Spotify playlist.
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At 05:11 29th Jul 2012, Mark Le Dan wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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At 05:57 29th Jul 2012, Mark Le Dan wrote:Dear BBC folk
Re: Bat for Lashes playlist
When Natasha Khan emerges on show as Bat for Lashes I’m sure we experience musical and visual ideas which are as close to those she has in her wondrous mind as she can craft them. To that end, my guess is, she puts much detailed thought into the song list at each performance. Why not, then, play through the songs she chose to announce herself when she first appeared again, exquisitely transformed, in Cambridge at the beginning of this latest run of public display? It was perfect then so, I’ve no doubt, would be again.
That’s the list compiled by Laura Snapes at Pitchfork, https://pitchfork.com/news/46855-report-bat-for-lashes-live-in-cambridge
Setlist:
"What's a Girl to Do", "Sleep Alone", "Glass", "Travelling Woman", "Horse and I", "Oh Yeah" - new, "Moon and Moon", "Marilyn" - new, "Rest Your Head" - new, "Laura" - new, "Prescilla", "Siren Song", "Trophy", "A Wall" - new.
Encore:
"Wilderness", "Pearl's Dream", "Daniel".
Five of these are new, on the soon-to-be-released album, so you’ll need to obtain them from Parlophone, I suppose, in order to broadcast the full flavour of this spellbinding evening. I hope your programme will be as deeply beautiful as Bat for Lashes.
Yours sincerely,
Mark
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At 15:18 1st Aug 2012, alexthebear wrote:1. Horse And I - Bat For Lashes
2. Strangelove - Depeche Mode
3. Lovesong - The Cure
4. I'm on Fire - Chromatics
5. Howl - Bat For Lashes
6. Madder Red - Yeasayer
7. A Forest - The Cure
8. Let's Get Lost - Beck and Bat For Lashes
9. Use Somebody - Bat For Lashes
10. Moon and Moon - Bat For Lashes
11. Encore: Pearl's Dream
Some of these choices are based on Bat For Lashes covers, others are slightly rarer tracks that I enjoy. The Cure's Disintegration has a similar vibe to Fur and Gold, epic... yet understated (Bat For Lashes covered A Forest by The Cure as well). I'm pretty sure Lashes fans will enjoy the new Chromatics album, so I put in their cover of I'm on Fire (although I like the Springsteen original too).
Yeasayer supported Bat For Lashes, and ODDBLOOD has some great stuff on it. Let's Get Lost: It's interesting to hear Natasha singing alongside more electronic sounds, even if they have a Boards of Canada analogue softness to them. Use Somebody: I love this cover, it's hard to pull off a cover of such an overtly emotional track.
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