Under the Radar Magazine

Last night, Bat For Lashes performed at the Henry Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. We sent writer/photographer Laura Studarus down to cover the action. (via Check out Photos of Bat For Lashes at the Henry Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, CA | Under The Radar)

Bat for Lashes’ Natasha Khan is still going strong these days in support of latest LP The Haunted Man. 

Celebrating the Hallmark sales boom known as Valentine’s Day, Vogue has been running a special video series welcoming a select group of musical artists to their studio to perform love songs. 

Each week Sirius radio station XMU invites some of the biggest names in indie rock for an evening pleasant conversation and the opportunity to perform a special stripped-down session of music.

With her third LP The Haunted Man, Bat for Lashes’ Natasha Khan came away with one of the standout records of 2012.

Reconnecting with director Noel Paul, Bat for Lashes’ Natasha Khan has premiered yet another moving music video, this time around for “A Wall,” her newest single from The Haunted Man.

Though every artist has his or her own trajectory, Bat For Lashes’ Natasha Khan seemed like the kind of songwriter whose creative gestures would only become more and more elaborate with each successive release. Having made a creative leap from her 2008 debut, Fur and Gold, to the conceptually adventurous Two Suns in 2009, she emerged as an artist whose work would likely only get more and more complex and ornately adorned. Yet when she sat down to work on her third album, The Haunted Man, she found herself moving in precisely the opposite direction. Khan wrote, recorded, and produced her new music on her own, stripping her songs down to their fundamental melodies, rhythms, and vocals. As a result, her songwriting feels even more intimate and immediate than before, her richly evocative voice exposed and vulnerable in the mix. Despite being more straightforward, it’s still conceptual art, this time dealing with the burdens of cultural heritage and personal history. That concept was translated into the album’s cover photo—a striking shot of a naked Khan with a nude man slung across her shoulders—a haunting image that captures the threadbare essence of the music perfectly. Speaking from London, Khan explains how she reconnected with her roots, the concepts at the foundation of The Haunted Man, and her now-infamous album cover. (via Bat For Lashes Discusses “The Haunted Man,” Its Album Cover, and Her Family History | Under The Radar)

Though every artist has his or her own trajectory, Bat For Lashes’ Natasha Khan seemed like the kind of songwriter whose creative gestures would only become more and more elaborate with each successive release. Having made a creative leap from her 2008 debut, Fur and Gold, to the conceptually adventurous Two Suns in 2009, she emerged as an artist whose work would likely only get more and more complex and ornately adorned. Yet when she sat down to work on her third album, The Haunted Man, she found herself moving in precisely the opposite direction. Khan wrote, recorded, and produced her new music on her own, stripping her songs down to their fundamental melodies, rhythms, and vocals. As a result, her songwriting feels even more intimate and immediate than before, her richly evocative voice exposed and vulnerable in the mix. Despite being more straightforward, it’s still conceptual art, this time dealing with the burdens of cultural heritage and personal history. That concept was translated into the album’s cover photo—a striking shot of a naked Khan with a nude man slung across her shoulders—a haunting image that captures the threadbare essence of the music perfectly. Speaking from London, Khan explains how she reconnected with her roots, the concepts at the foundation of The Haunted Man, and her now-infamous album cover. (via Bat For Lashes: Stripped Bare | Under The Radar)

Next week Natasha Khan, a.k.a. Bat For Lashes will release her much-anticipated new album The Haunted Man.

Gaining some serious steam in the lead-up to her upcoming third album The Haunted Man, Bat For Lashes has followed-up the stream and video of her lead single “All Your Gold” with a remix by Hercules and Love Affair. (via Listen: Bat for Lashes - “All Your Gold” (Hercules And Love Affair Remix) | Under The Radar)