If you always liked Siouxsie and the Banshees but found they just weren’t quite artsy-fartsy enough for you, Bat for Lashes could be the tonic. The band name is really a guise for Natasha Khan, a Pakistan-born singer-songwriter who settled in England. She sings with an eerie whisper that gets hauntingly high, and dusts her songs with contrasting elements: synth and drum beats here, wood and wire accompaniment there. At times, the songs on the April release Two Suns sound decidedly 21st century. Other times, they sound yanked from a time machine that was last seen in 1985. They’re lusciously liquid and difficult to pin down.
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