7/31/7, Los Angeles Last night saw the L.A. debut of Bat For Lashes from Brighton, England, offering ten or so tracks from their U.S. debut Fur and Gold. The act is really just Natasha Khan, although she's touring the states backed by an all-female three-piece who rotate instruments.
The group's thrift store gypsy look matches their sound, an amalgam of junkshop folk (violins, viola, autoharp, percussion of all kinds), noisy guitar, electro beats and Khan's unreal vocal stylings that recall Bjork, Polly Jean Harvey and Julee Cruise --- sometimes all in one song. Like a less cloying CocoRosie, Bat For Lashes has a sweeping but childlike sound, often piano-driven, that can send shivers up your spine. But too many songs crawl along, and even at an hour, their Spaceland set seemed too long (this wasn't helped by their delay to the stage).
Photos by the insufferable Chinapixie.
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