Bat For Lashes proclaims new album and shares title observe
Bat For Lashes has introduced her sixth studio album ‘The Dream Of Delphi’ and shared its title observe, in addition to particulars of a UK tour – pay attention and discover all the main points under.
The London singer-songwriter and producer – actual identify Natasha Khan – is because of launch the 10-song file on Might 31, marking her first challenge since signing with acclaimed label Mercury KX. Pre-order/pre-save here.
Arriving in the present day (February 22), the ethereal single ‘The Dream Of Delphi’ – which is able to open the upcoming LP of the identical identify – tackles the artist’s expertise of motherhood. It’s described as being “half pagan invocation, half celestial synth epic”.
Khan defined in a press launch that the observe was “the manifesto of the album”, including: “It’s like a spell being forged. It’s the conjuring, the manifestation, the drawing-down of Delphi from the ether. That is me calling on her soul.”
She continued: “It’s about going up into the celebrities and down into the underworld concurrently, how celestials and deep guttural sounds can come collectively, how that displays the journey I went on. It’s about what occurs once you’re stretched bodily, mentally, even vaginally!
“I feel it’s simply humbled me, too, changing into a mom,” she added. “It’s made me really feel extra weak than I’ve ever felt earlier than. However I really feel extra human, extra embodied. I can’t escape life by making lovely issues as a lot as I did. However there’s kind of a magnificence to my mortality now.”
She concluded: “Motherhood I believed would take me away from my artwork, nevertheless it opened up this large world.”
The tune is accompanied by a fittingly atmospheric official video, which was filmed within the English countryside earlier this winter. It was produced in collaboration with artistic director and choreographer Alexandra Inexperienced, and directed by Freddie Leyden.
Per a press launch, the visuals function the primary chapter of a yet-to-be-announced long-form album movie, with extra data to be revealed quickly. Watch above.
As for the file on the entire, ‘The Dream Of Delphi’ was self-produced by Khan and was created after she gave beginning to her daughter throughout the COVID lockdown in the summertime of 2020.
Formally asserting my new album ‘The Dream of Delphi’, popping out Might thirty first 2024 🌀✨https://t.co/69EwBDYTqF pic.twitter.com/xQqAuLQNtS
— Bat for Lashes (@BatForLashes) February 22, 2024
An outline reads: “Moments of quiet domesticity sit amongst flashes of existential marvel in these ten spiralling compositions. Lyrics in regards to the break-up of Natasha’s relationship with Delphi’s father interweave with the place of the mom within the endless cycle of life, demise and rebirth.
“Concepts and sounds each historic and fashionable additionally mesh mesmerisingly collectively, pianos, bass flutes and harps mixing with organs, mellotrons and the whirling sound patterns of synthesisers, impressed by [Khan’s] love of feminine and trans artists like Delia Derbyshire, Constance Demby and Beverly Glenn Copeland, and her longstanding pursuits in ambient and orchestral movie soundtracks.”
The tracklist for ‘The Dream Of Delphi’ is:
1. ‘The Dream Of Delphi’
2. ‘Christmas Day’
3. ‘Letter To My Daughter’
4. ‘At Your Ft’
5. ‘The Midwives Have Left’
6. ‘Residence’
7. ‘Breaking Up’
8. ‘Delphi Dancing’
9. ‘Her First Morning’
10. ‘Waking Up’
11. ‘The Dream of Delphi (Bonus Prolonged Strings Model)’
Moreover, Bat For Lashes has confirmed a run of UK reveals for this summer season. The tour will mark her first headline dates on these shores in 5 years, and features a efficiency on the Barbican in London.
Tickets go on sale at 10am GMT subsequent Friday (March 1) – you’ll be able to buy yours here. Alternatively, followers can signal as much as entry an artist pre-sale subsequent Wednesday (February 28) – you can do so here.
Bat For Lashes’ 2024 UK tour dates are:
JUNE
12 – O2 Academy 2, Oxford
18 – City Corridor, Birmingham
19 – Beacon, Bristol
24 – Barbican, London
25 – De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill On Sea
27 – Aviva Studios, Manchester
Bat For Lashes final launched an album within the type of 2019’s ‘Misplaced Women’.
In a four-star evaluate, NME referred to as the challenge her “most constant work so far”, including that Khan was “nonetheless dramatic, seductive and theatrical, however absolutely lower free. That is Khan’s personal heroic second.”