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The Haunted Man

Bat for Lashes Audio CD
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Bat For Lashes – aka Natasha Khan – releases the highly-anticipated third album, The Haunted Man, on October 15, 2012.

“Subtle, heartfelt and profoundly moving” The Independent
“Feelings of mortality abound, making it her own take on Scott Walker’s ‘Big Louise’, with a suggestion of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’” ... Read more in Amazon's Bat for Lashes Store

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  • Audio CD (15 Oct 2012)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Parlophone
  • ASIN: B008AU7F3C
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (60 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 15,562 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

1. Lilies
2. All Your Gold
3. Horses of the Sun
4. Oh Yeah
5. Laura
6. Winter Fields
7. The Haunted Man
8. Marilyn
9. A Wall
10. Rest Your Head
11. Deep Sea Diver

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The third album by Bat For Lashes--the moniker for singer-songwriter Natasha Khan--is titled The Haunted Man. It features the singles "Laura" and "All Your Gold". Speaking about the album, Khan said: "I really wanted to strip things back in honour of women like Patti Smith; just these raw, honest women. I had no make-up on, it's just me and my haunted man!"

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Third studio album by the Mercury Prize-nominated singer/songwriter. The album has been positively received by critics and includes the singles 'Laura' and 'All Your Gold'.

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The fancy dress costumes have been put away, and the haunting claustrophobia of Natasha Khan's previous albums Fur and Gold and Two Suns have been traded in for a sound that is cinematic in scope and mature in outlook.

Haunted Man opens with 'Lillies', a song that draws from the same conceptual well as Goldfrapp's Felt Mountain. Khan's ethereal voice hovers above disjointed electronic beats and warm synths that seem to swoop from the sparseness and fragility of the verse to a lush chorus of exquisitely detailed instrumentation.

'All Your Gold' and 'Horses of the Sun' are both songs whose foundation is in percussive rhythms rather than melodic patterns. All Your Gold takes its lead from Egyptian cadence, with its plucked guitar notes and clinking bottles emulating the sense of intense urgency you would find in some of PJ Harvey's bluesier numbers. Horses in the Sun is built around deep syncopated Dhol drums, electronic jitters and backing vocals delivered in an Arabic magam. There is an uneasy and restless quality to this song that harkens back, at least conceptually, to some of the stranger tracks on Fur and Gold.

'Oh Yeah' takes a leaf out of M83's playbook with its epic electronic soundscape dripping with layers of sampled choirs, trip-hop beats and gorgeous twinkling pianos. What is striking about this song is how crisp the production is: with a sound so echoic and vast, it's remarkable that the individual instruments don't get washed away in torrents of reverb.

'Laura' sounds like every angsty-girl-with-a-piano ballad that one could care to hear and seems somewhat at odds with the rest of the songs on the album. 'Winter Fields', in contrast, delivers frosty synths and atmospheric vocals to produce one of the most interesting and accomplished pieces of music on the album.

The titular 'The Haunted Man' is a song that could easily fit onto Björk's Homogenic album, with its insect-click electronic ticks building to a crecendo of rolling snare drums and thundering bass. This is an exceptional piece of music that fosters an incredible sense of intrigue and wonder in the mind of the listener. 'Marilyn' is equally stunning, and echoes the magical feeling of 'The Haunted Man'. Hammering kick drums and electronic hand-claps shouldn't be able to make such a fantastic sound - but they do, and it's wonderful. Khan's vocals in this song are particularly breathtaking, as she allows her voice to evoke raw feelings of emotion. It might not display the warbled vocal gymnastics that we have become accustomed to through shows like X-Factor, but this is soul music as it should be: real and honest.

In 'A Wall', Khan wears the influence of Kate Bush on her sleeve, seemingly drawing the song's rhythm and tone from Bush's 'The Big Sky', but with one important caveat: it does not sound derivative, but rather a subtle homage that acknowledges her musical influences and marks it as her own. Rest Your Head is another excellent piece of music with haunting synths and sparse electronic beats that would fit easily on any Timbaland record.

Album closer 'Deep Sea Dive' is a downbeat electronic offering with Khan's vocals resonating beautifully over instrumentation that would fit easily on Disasterpeace's awesome soundtrack to mind-bending cryptographic platform game FEZ, with its sweeping synths and dislocated beats.

The Haunted Man is Bat For Lashes' most fully-realised album to date. The music has matured and as a result is subtle and surprising. This is a very good album that makes huge steps in securing Natasha Khan's legacy as a unique vocalist and thought-provoking song-writer.

- Jon Cronshaw
keeporcull.co.uk
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars haunting and addictive 15 Oct 2012
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Essentially, the third Bat for Lashes album is a lot like the second, only more so. "Haunting" is a key word that describes the addictive effect of the sounds used to underline Natasha's ethereal vocals. We get a different texture in each song, for instance plucked and muted strings in the first single All your gold, resonating drums in the next track, then bowed string bass in another, or warbling synths or xylophones. These accompaniments are often ostinato, i.e. obstinately repeated for much of the song, but as they have a different kind of sound in each song, they still offer interesting diversity, and often manage to sound mysterious, pulling the listener in by making them curious.

So, well, if you've played Two Suns a hundred times (I have), you may enjoy this even more.

(Oh, and I just love the cover photo to bits. Sadly, the booklet doesn't reveal what happened next - surely she can't have carried that bloke around forever?)
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars This Is Simply The Best Album Of The Year 25 Oct 2012
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At different times, this is a soaring, subtle, beautiful and powerful album. It is utterly compelling. The production is so sympathetic that to listen to it with a low volume is a completely different experience to hearing it loud.

It is an ALBUM and to sit with it from beginning to end provides a real journey for the listener.

Bat For Lashes has outgrown any comparison to artists past.

Bushims are there if you really want to look for them, but Kate pretty much did it all between 1978 and 1989. Her impeccable work is forever going to be a benchmark for a certain type of female artist... just as The Beatles have been for nearly all bands, The Rolling Stones are for a certain kind of rock band, Bob Dylan for protest singers or singer/songwriters, Black Sabbath are for metal bands, Elton John is for piano playing solo artist, and so on.

The trick is to take what inspires you and rise above it, and take it further. Bat For Lashes has done this. Glorious.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Bat for lashes is my fav
I love all of the bat for lashes music but I think I like this album the most out of the 3. My fav song is winter fields.
Published 2 days ago by miss a
3.0 out of 5 stars ok
Certainly a strange cover for the CD.
She has a very nice voice the songs were just ok, nothing startling
Published 4 days ago by Dja Alexander
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing.
Not a terrible album but due to the previous one being so good I had high expectations. Unfortunately this doesn't compare to the first one and I wouldn't recommend it. Read more
Published 7 days ago by Georgia Ralph
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely magical
Heard a review of the album with Jo Whiley just before its release and though I’d try it out.

I so wish I’d found Natasha’s music years ago. Read more
Published 17 days ago by Simon
4.0 out of 5 stars great album
This is one of the best albums of the year and if you get vinyl Version. You also get free cd of the album to
Published 1 month ago by kinkafro
5.0 out of 5 stars The haunted Man
This is a brilliant album - I cannot stop playing it! This has to be Bat for Lashes best alums to date. I really want to see her live but haven't had the opportunity... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Zita Milwain
5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT THANKS
Bought for a friend, and she was very happy with it. Would buy again from this retailer, speedy service realy good
Published 1 month ago by kittygalore1
5.0 out of 5 stars The difficult third album ?
The first offering from Natasha Khan was enough to make you take notice it was a bit raw lacking the polish of a seasoned song writer but left you feeling that there was something... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Andy
4.0 out of 5 stars shes has got into her stride.
i liked this record immedatly after lisnting to it the first time but tired of most of the tracks not long after. Read more
Published 2 months ago by cassandra
4.0 out of 5 stars Super
Great singer, great songs, unique sound, impressive voice.
It seems it was difficult to create it, after 2 great albums, and big successes. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Koen
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