I heard it while intending to jukebox it and it was SHOCKING how not-crap it was. I mean, I'm sure I remember the last one being abysmal, and this was...I wouldn't say I liked it a lot, and the video was annoying*, but it definitely wasn't bad! The Sophie B Hawkins comparison someone made in the blurbs was v OTM (prob more helpful than the spectre of Kate Bush tbh). That said while I was moved to acquire the mp3, I haven't yet been moved to play it again.
*this seems as good a place as anywhere to bring up something Frances Morgan wrote/said about Bat For Lashes (haven't read what she wrote, Kate retweeted it or something). BFL as we know comes from a famous Pakistani squash dynasty, and apparently in person has a sportswoman's attitude to success and a go-getting nature. Yet on record and live, she's so ethereal as to be totally insubstantial. The question posed is whether "ethereality" is something she (consciously or unconsciously) opted for b/c that's more acceptable in a female pop star in a way that a jockish aggression isn't.
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Date: 2009-06-10 11:44 am (UTC)*this seems as good a place as anywhere to bring up something Frances Morgan wrote/said about Bat For Lashes (haven't read what she wrote, Kate retweeted it or something). BFL as we know comes from a famous Pakistani squash dynasty, and apparently in person has a sportswoman's attitude to success and a go-getting nature. Yet on record and live, she's so ethereal as to be totally insubstantial. The question posed is whether "ethereality" is something she (consciously or unconsciously) opted for b/c that's more acceptable in a female pop star in a way that a jockish aggression isn't.