Bat for Lashes announces new single & video ‘Lilies’
Bat for Lashes has unveiled a stop-motion animation video for next single âLiliesâ, released on 15 April via Parlophone.
Watch the Video here – http://youtu.be/ZCUCBCL8KKQ
Natasha Khan is nominated for âBest Femaleâ at tonightâs Brit awards.
Artist: Bat for Lashes
Title: âLiliesâ single
Release Date: 15 April 2013
Label: Parlophone
Formats: CD / Download
Website: www.batforlashes.com
Video: http://youtu.be/ZCUCBCL8KKQ
âThis album elicits a powerful aura, which continues to resonate potently several hours, even days, after the last note has diedâ – Album of the Month, 4/5 Mojo
âA fiercely original songwriter⊠it is her third masterpiece and unquestionably one of the albums of the yearâ – The Sunday Times
BRIT nominated Bat for Lashes is proud to unveil the video for âLiliesâ, the 4th single to be taken from the critically acclaimed album âThe Haunted Manâ. âLiliesâ 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), âLiliesâ 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 âthank god Iâm aliveâ 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:
âThe concept of the âLiliesâ 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.â
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âWorking 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.â
Bat for Lashes will co-headline Field Day in Victoria Park, London with Animal Collective on 25 May 2013.
Praise for The Haunted Man:
âInventive, dark and sensualâ 4/5 The Guardian
âThe 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 canât loseâ 4/5 Q Magazine
âThe album is Khanâs strongest yetâ The Observer
âKhan swerves from the twilit fancies of her early work to more intimate, tactile songs⊠all without diluting the spells she castsâ The Independent
âBat for Lashesâ majesty may be less mythical, but itâs still there, truer and just as vital as itâs always beenâ 9/10 Loud & Quiet
âItâs hard not to be awed⊠The Haunted Man requires your complete attention; no more than Natasha Khan deservesâ 4/5 The Fly
â8/10â NME
âA skilled blend of the organic and the electronic⊠this is the real dealâ Independent On Sunday
â4/5â Time Out
âKhanâs compositions are sylphlike, her lyrics richly evocativeâ 4/5 Time Out
âLush and cinematic⊠In the past Khan labored in the long shadows of her obvious influences: on The Haunted Man sheâs exorcised some of those ghosts to become her own womanâ Uncut
âAn album where leftfield resourcefulness and mainstream ambition merge handsomelyâ 4/5 Daily Mirror
âConfirms (Natasha Khan) as one of our most interesting songwritersâ 4/5 Evening Standard
âAn ambitious and multi-faceted pop album⊠all evidence of an artist really hitting her strideâ GQ
âYouâre in for a treatâ 9/10 Mixmag
âUtterly sublimeâ 9/10 DJ
âBursting with a clear confidence while still retaining the otherworldy romanticismâ Dazed & Confused
âBeautiful, daring and captivating⊠cementing Khanâs status as one of our most inventive, ambitious artistsâ 8/10 This Is Fake DIY