Bat For Lashes

Futuristic love-struck musical.

The newest work from Natasha Khan, singer-songwriter-instrumentalist of Bat for Lashes, is just as dreamy and dramatic as her last. In a start-to-finish listen, we might not know what she wants us to hear, but we certainly know what she’ll have us feel.

Khan’s sailing melodies, uplifting and sweet, carry tracks like “Marilyn” and the orchestral “Lilies.”

The action cuts in as punchy march beats in “A Wall” and the rather sultry “Oh Yeah.”

“All Your Gold,” in its opening guitar picks and hardly conspicuous lyrics, sounds disappointingly and eerily similar to Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know.”

But closer “Deep Sea Diver” can so easily be imagined, unfurling behind a wavering underwater lens, with Khan “oohing” serenely above.

By Rachael Stuart