Two Suns (studio album)
by Bat For Lashes

From cestuneblague 07/08/2016 20:53 | #170909

Massive and a bit self-consciously draped in a melodramtic, exotic surface, Two Suns is a modern art-pop album with impressively crafted songs, often quite lovely and at times completely beguiling while also more than a bit ungainly and overwrought as a whole. It lacks the focus of her excellent debut, but Kahn does take her sound in some fascinating new directions even if she eventually burns out at the end. It's still an oft-beautiful record, even if Im not sure it really knows what it wants to say.

From zdwyatt 10/24/2013 20:34 | #89135

It's a polished amalgam of PJ Harvey, Kate Bush, and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Less jarring, better singing. This album has this orchestral lushness to it that I find extremely sedative.

From paladisiac 12/09/2011 17:34 | #32470

"two suns" is dramatic and haunting and heartbreaking. Check opener "glass" or "pearl's dream" for the proof. The restless drums and the beautifully-tense vocals of Natasha Khan lay a backdrop only mastered well by goth-ish male bands of the 80s and 90s, a comparison Natasha lamented herself, but she should be proud she's kicking butt with songs like "daniel", inspired by the karate kid, that have only been formally conquered in full by men like morrissey and the cure and interpol, etc. "daniel" itself plays out like a dream sequence from a movie of unrequited love at the beach -- two lovers racing to each other in slow-motion on the beach, never actually reaching each other's embrace.

Nice vocalist! Good sense of song writing on the album and a pleasent mystical sound. Daniel is the best song.

quietly brilliant album.