Bat for Lashes announces new single & video ‘Lilies’
Bat for Lashes has unveiled a stop-motion animation video for next single ‘Lilies’, released on 15 April via Parlophone.
Watch the Video here – http://youtu.be/ZCUCBCL8KKQ
Natasha Khan is nominated for ‘Best Female’ at tonight’s Brit awards.
Artist: Bat for Lashes
Title: ‘Lilies’ single
Release Date: 15 April 2013
Label: Parlophone
Formats: CD / Download
Website: www.batforlashes.com
Video: http://youtu.be/ZCUCBCL8KKQ
“This album elicits a powerful aura, which continues to resonate potently several hours, even days, after the last note has died” – Album of the Month, 4/5 Mojo
“A fiercely original songwriter… it is her third masterpiece and unquestionably one of the albums of the year” – The Sunday Times
BRIT nominated Bat for Lashes is proud to unveil the video for ‘Lilies’, the 4th single to be taken from the critically acclaimed album ‘The Haunted Man’. ‘Lilies’ will be released via Parlophone on 15th April 2013.
Commissioned by Natasha and directed by award winning mixed-media director Peter Sluszka (Moones, björk and Regina Spektor), ‘Lilies’ is a fantastical stop-motion video staring Natasha along with 3 giant puppets.
The filming of the video started back in August 2012 at the acclaimed mixed-media production company Hornet Inc. and their stage in Brooklyn. Natasha sat for 9 hours mouthing the lyrics “thank god I’m alive” as part of the stop-motion sequence. The final animation has a wave made of shaving foam as well as streaks of lightning pouring out of her mouth, and specks of glitter shimmering around her face.
Natasha says of the video:
“The concept of the ‘Lilies’ video really came to me in quite a subconscious way… Perhaps it was the lyric about children all coming to my door with bottles of dreams, but I wanted the video to contain that kind of childlike surrealism. I wanted the verses to be minimal, in darkness, perhaps illuminated by the beams of a lighthouse. And then I thought the choruses needed to bloom visually, as the music does. The idea of introducing puppets and references to psychedelic English animations and landscape felt very fitting with the themes of the song. I wanted to reference all the dark childhood fantasy films I watched as a child, like Labyrinth and Roald Dahl and Terry Gilliam films.
The central theme of the song is about epiphanies and trusting the beauty life has to offer, and so as the video progresses, I learn to trust the creatures and explore that intimacy more and more.”
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“Working with Natasha was extremely rewarding because in addition to being a great performer, she’s an artist with a unique vision, and collaborating with her on Lilies resulted in creative challenges that made the process and the finished video unlike any other I have worked on. Perhaps the most important factor in this production was Natasha’s willingness to endure labour intensive pixilation shots, many of them hours long, where she bore the brunt of the tedium and pain. This project couldn’t have been achieved without her singular devotion and discipline. Despite the hard work, the performance footage with the massive puppets shows moments of real joy, humour, and improvisation that counterbalance the poise and meticulousness of the animation shots.”
Bat for Lashes will co-headline Field Day in Victoria Park, London with Animal Collective on 25 May 2013.
Praise for The Haunted Man:
“Inventive, dark and sensual” 4/5 The Guardian
“The Haunted Man shows Natasha Khan with one foot either side of the looking glass, a balancing act even more remarkable than the one on the albums cover. Pop queen, art star; whichever way she moves, she can’t lose” 4/5 Q Magazine
“The album is Khan’s strongest yet” The Observer
“Khan swerves from the twilit fancies of her early work to more intimate, tactile songs… all without diluting the spells she casts” The Independent
“Bat for Lashes’ majesty may be less mythical, but it’s still there, truer and just as vital as it’s always been” 9/10 Loud & Quiet
“It’s hard not to be awed… The Haunted Man requires your complete attention; no more than Natasha Khan deserves” 4/5 The Fly
“8/10” NME
“A skilled blend of the organic and the electronic… this is the real deal” Independent On Sunday
“4/5” Time Out
“Khan’s compositions are sylphlike, her lyrics richly evocative” 4/5 Time Out
“Lush and cinematic… In the past Khan labored in the long shadows of her obvious influences: on The Haunted Man she’s exorcised some of those ghosts to become her own woman” Uncut
“An album where leftfield resourcefulness and mainstream ambition merge handsomely” 4/5 Daily Mirror
“Confirms (Natasha Khan) as one of our most interesting songwriters” 4/5 Evening Standard
“An ambitious and multi-faceted pop album… all evidence of an artist really hitting her stride” GQ
“You’re in for a treat” 9/10 Mixmag
“Utterly sublime” 9/10 DJ
“Bursting with a clear confidence while still retaining the otherworldy romanticism” Dazed & Confused
“Beautiful, daring and captivating… cementing Khan’s status as one of our most inventive, ambitious artists” 8/10 This Is Fake DIY