Bat For Lashes Announces New Track ‘Laura’ And Reveals Album Artwork

Bat for Lashes has announced a brand new song ‘Laura’, after Zane Lowe premiered it on Radio 1 in the UK as his ‘Hottest Track In The World’. Taken from the highly anticipated third album The Haunted Man, released on 12 October, the track is available now HERE.‘Laura’ has already struck a chord with fans after live performances at recent European festivals.

This devastating, tear-stained swoon of a piano ballad featuring seductively sombre horns and strings is accompanied by a suitably heart rending video, visit www.batforlashes.com or click below to watch it now.

The striking album artwork for ‘The Haunted Man’ has also been revealed. Shot by the revered photographer Ryan McGinley, known for his naturalistic imagery (Sigur Ros Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust ‘With A Buzz In Our Ear We Play Endlessly’ album artwork), Natasha appears naked and carrying a man around her shoulders. The first single to be taken from the album will be premiered in late August.

Bat for Lashes first captured hearts back in 2006 with a set of distinctively haunting and rich songs ripe with magic realism. Her dream world was opened up in two Mercury Music Prize nominated albums, Fur and Gold (2006) and 2009’s universally acclaimed ‘Two Suns’. The latter featured the irresistible ‘Daniel’ – which won Ms Khan an Ivor Novello award for Best Contemporary Song – and began her journey into the mainstream.

Since releasing the universally acclaimed album ‘Two Suns’ in 2009, which has now sold over 250,000 copies, Natasha toured South America with Coldplay in 2010, collaborated with Beck to write a song for the Twilight film, Eclipse, headlined two sold out shows at the Sydney Opera House in June 2011 and covered Depeche Mode’s ‘Strangelove’ for Gucci’s Guilty campaign, released on limited release on 7 vinyl for this year’s Record Store Day in the UK.

Check out ‘Laura’ here

‘The Haunted Man’ out on 12th October

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