Take heed to Bat For Lashes’ heartfelt new single ‘Letter To My Daughter’
Bat For Lashes has shared a heartfelt new single referred to as ‘Letter To My Daughter’. Test it out beneath.
Shared in the present day (March 21), the brand new monitor sees the London-born musician Natasha Khan drop the newest teaser of her upcoming sixth studio album ‘The Dream Of Delphi’ – out Might thirty first by way of Mercury KX.
“This title is fairly self-explanatory. If I used to be on my deathbed, it’s what I’d say to Delphi to provide her some sense of being at house on the planet, the galaxy, the universe we stay in. Earlier than Delphi was born I began writing her a ebook of letters, impressed by Maya Angelou’s ebook of the identical identify, Letter To My Daughter,” Khan mentioned of the one.
“It paperwork a really unusual however magical 12 months, filled with particular reminiscences and historic worldly moments. This experience of life is at all times persevering with and we’re all simply power shifting from one kind into one other, at all times. She’s additionally simply a part of an echo, ancestral line or spiral within the cosmos, just like the spiral that I noticed in her delicate hair when she was a child. She is a part of one thing a lot higher than any of us individually; she comes from the previous and she or he comes from the long run.”
The writing of the track arose after the singer grew to become pregnant at first of a brand new decade, just a few months after her final album, 2019’s ‘Misplaced Ladies’, was launched.
“I used to be writing ‘Letters to Delphi’ from the time she was the scale of a tomato seed. About every thing that was occurring on the planet, just like the riots after George Floyd’s homicide and the Black Lives Matter motion, concerning the pandemic and COVID, concerning the world that she was going to be born into.”
The track opens with polyphonic digital synths – impressed by ’70s science documentaries and archival footage of early experimental digital machines – and is paired with Bats For Lashes’ beautiful and introspective vocals. Test it out above.
Information of the brand new album arrived final month, when Khan shared its title monitor, in addition to particulars of a UK tour.
The lead single tackles the artist’s expertise of motherhood and is described as “half pagan invocation, half celestial synth epic”.
Her upcoming tour dates are set to kick off in June, and you’ll try the total record of reveals beneath. Purchase remaining tickets 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