Bat for Lashes, for those of you unfamiliar, is an excellent female artist who combines her haunting but lovely voice with dark textures and quiet ambient music. She's a favorite of Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke and really has the power to set a mood. The saturnine beauty of Bat for Lashes really shines through on her latest release: Two Suns. I know that album was released a while ago but I'm discovering it for the first time and just wanted to share. The dynamics go back and forth between intense, blinding, darkness (see "Two Planets") and serene, contemplative, melancholy tracks like the operatic "The Big Sleep". While the mood of the entire album is undoubtedly low there are peels of happiness and hope that bleed through in certain songs which makes Two Suns more appealing than if it were just a simple, flat-line, of sorrow. Both relaxing and harrowing Two Suns is evocative without being overwrought.
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