Aces!

We held off on posting this for a while because we thought we might write about Natasha's album at the same time, but as it turns out, the new Bat For Lashes album is possibly her best ever work, so that'll definitely get a separate post and probably a year end best of, too.

The above video and song are great, but they're just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the great quality of songs on The Haunted Man (in all good stores now!). We always yearned for Ms. Khan to take the excellent but sparse haunting folk work she started on her debut album and go EPIC with it. Go MAJESTIC. Go PANORAMIC and ORCHESTRAL. We hoped her second album might bring the goods, but it didn't. As lovely and charming and complex as it was, it still felt like it was holding back, like it was taking too much pleasure in its subtleties and restraint.

Fortunately Natasha has now abandoned a lot of her seeming coyness and her new record features the kind of lush, open, expansive scope we knew from the start that she could achieve. Seriously. It could be her best album yet.