Here’s a weird and indefensible but completely genuine reaction that much-anticipated new albums sometimes provoke: I wish it was better. It’s one thing if a band you like suddenly shits the bed on a new album; God knows, that happens enough. But when someone follows up a record that hit a chord deep within you [...]

At this point, we’ve already heard a lot of the new Bat For Lashes album The Haunted Man; “A Wall,” “Oh Yeah” and “Winter Fields” hit the web last week after “All Your Gold,” “Marilyn” and “Laura” struck previously. Now, via NPR’s First Listen series, you...

Natasha Khan played her own low-key version of the song on Zane Lowe's Radio 1 show

“We Found Love” is an unusually dark song for Rihanna, but in the hands of Bat For Lashes’ Natasha Khan, it’s several shades darker still. Performing the song on Zane Lowe’s BBC show, Khan leaves the original melody intact but reworks the arrangement, stripping it bare and slowing it down, rebuil...

Bat For Lashes’ long awaited third album The Haunted Man is coming later this month, and we’ve already heard three songs from it: “Laura,” “Marilyn,” and “All Your Gold.” All three of those tracks appear on a new Soundcloud sampler of the album that recently appeared...