The Haunted Man (Deluxe Version)
Spacious, boldly orchestrated, and emotionally rich, Natasha Khan's latest is another step forward for the multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter. Featuring collaborations with Beck, Rob Ellis, David Sitek, Portishead's Adrian Utley, and others, The Haunted Man is at once striking and enigmatic.
Natasha Khan spent several years prepping The Haunted Man, her third album under the name Bat For Lashes. The extra effort shows: While the languorous tempos and sparse orchestration are reminiscent of her 2006 debut, Fur And Gold, everything about the record is meticulous, from sculpted orchestral passages driven by…
An album possessed with enough innovation to carry Bat For Lashes forward without disturbing the flickering half-light that their sound inhabits.
On 2009's Two Suns, Natasha Khan (aka Bat for Lashes) focused the atmospheric, folktronic quirkiness of her intriguing…
The biggest difference between The Haunted Man and 2009's Two Suns is in the presentation – gone are the intricate, ornate, quasi-mystical visual trappings of that album's cover, along with Natasha Khan's glamourpuss alter-ego Pearl, and much of the spectral, reverb-drenched vocal effects used on Two Suns and its predecessor Fur and Gold.
Natasha Khan's first two albums as Bat For Lashes (2006's Fur and Gold and 2009's Two Suns) cast her as a playful, idiosyncratic musician wh...
Natasha Khan, on the cover of her third Bat For Lashes album, stands nude save for a necklace, a naked man draped over her shoulders as if he were a feather boa.
ClashMusic: Read an album review of Natasha Khan aka Bat For Lashes' 'The Haunted Man' featuring the single 'Laura'.
Natasha Khan has made her best album yet – but she still needs to find a voice of her own, writes <strong>Kitty Empire</strong>
Despite its flaws, The Haunted Man is still a worthy, often gorgeous entry in the Bat for Lashes canon.
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Bat for Lashes' third album, The Haunted Man, delivers on the current vogue for weird and wonky pop music. But is it enough?
The spirit of Kate Bush still looms large over the third album from this gifted musician. CD review by Bruce Dessau