Welcome to There's No Turning Back. This is a fansite and fanlisting for Bat for Lashes, the music project of Natasha Khan, the wonderfully talented singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
This fanlisting was last updated on May 08, 2012. We have 7 fans listed with 0 pending! This site is listed in the Musicians: Female category at The Fanlistings Network. I am proud to have run this fanlisting since October 14, 2010!
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A remix of Bat for Lashes’ Sleep Alone is included on the soundtrack to The Vampire Diaries. A couple of reviews of the album mention the track. Here’s a collection of a few:
Posted on November 21, 2010 @ 7:25 PM. Leave a comment?
An interview with pop star Robyn includes a nice quote about Bat for Lashes! Here’s what she says:
“I realize that in American indie music, dance pop is seen as a kitschy thing,” she says. “It’s ‘not real music.’ It uses samplers, it’s not authentic. But in Europe, we take our club culture pretty seriously. I think things are changing in America too, in large part because the Internet has affected how people look for stuff. They’re no longer told what records to buy by corporations or influenced by what label is marketing to you. So while you don’t have artists on a scale of Michael Jackson or Prince in the mainstream now, you do have people like Bat for Lashes, MIA and MGMT making interesting club music. There is a real pop element in indie-based music now, and that’s a healthy thing.”
You can read the full article here!
Posted on November 10, 2010 @ 8:24 PM. Leave a comment?
Spinner has a great piece about women in rock music that compares Bat for Lashes to Kate Bush. See their article on the two here and see the rest of their comparisons here. The Bat for Lashes blurb is below:
At this point, it’s a cliché to use Kate Bush as shorthand to describe the mystical, otherworldly vibe of Natasha Khan’s Bat for Lashes project. But as is the case with so many clichés, this one has caught on because it’s grounded in truth. Both Brit birds are blessed with ethereal, soaring voices and a gift for vivid, imagistic writing. As is evident from their tunes, Khan and Bush also share a love of arty synthesizers – especially ones that deliver cascades of pseudo-harpsichord sounds. You could also draw parallels between the elaborate costumes they use to channel the characters in their music, but an even more pronounced commonality can be found in the themes of their work: Both have a particular interest in exploring the nuances and complexities of gender roles and male-female relationships without resorting to hackneyed platitudes.
Posted on October 13, 2010 @ 11:29 AM. Leave a comment?