Summer Sounds: August

(After attempting to post any Bat for Lashes songs for three days, I finally gave up and just posted a video instead. A video I don’t particularly like for a song I sort of half-like, but it’s better than nothing.)

“Sleep Alone” by Bat for Lashes

Two Suns

Evenings in August are the longest, the light lingering far into what should properly be night. Sunsets take a lifetime and stars don’t wink into sight til bedtime.

Therefore, August was the perfect time for Bat for Lashes to unleash her second album, Two Suns. A crazy amalgam where fantasy, prophecy and evil sirens can intermingle perfectly with cutting edge electronica and dancehall beats, Two Suns tells the story of alter-ego Pearl and her journey…somewhere. Lyrics that might as well hail from a new-Age dream journal somehow become transcendent when couched in tremendously creative arrangements, carried by Natasha Khan’s soaring voice.

In August’s crepuscular light, Bat for Lashes’ eerie vocals, battering electronics and ethereal washes melded in a whole that hinted at something greater than the sum of its parts.