Low

Low, Bat For Lashes at London Koko, Wed 26 Jul

Review by Mike Diver

Natasha Khan - for it is she that hides behind the Bat For Lashes nom de plume - projects a persona of absolute kookiness: the glittering facial adornments, the awkward body shape as she floats from position to position on Koko's sizeable stage, the way she mumbles commands between songs, most of which fall upon deaf ears. Yet her music is anything but trivial or incongruous...»

Koko

Train: Camden Road (10 mins) Euston (10 mins) St. Pancras (12 mins)

Tube: Mornington Crescent (2 mins)

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Low

Since 1993, the core of Low has been husband and wife Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker. Famous for spearheading the regrettably titled 'slowcore' movement, Low craft delicate and graceful melodies, at once achingly sad and gloriously uplifting (2001's Things We Lost In The Fire being widely regarded as a particular peak).

Today, with bassist Matt Livingston, they continue to create beautiful music with a gradually more abrasive and continually experimental bent, as heard on the markedly mean The Great Destroyer, an album that also marked a move to Sub Pop. »

Bat For Lashes

Bat For Lashes is Natasha Khan.

"...stupendous, haunting..."
Sunday Times

"Khan has a mystial magic that's distinctly her own."
The Observer

Bat For Lashes' debut single was released digitally through DiS Records (link) and on seven-inch through Khan's own imprint, She Bear Records. Now signed to Echo, her debut album Fur and Gold is released on 11 September. It features contributions from Josh T Pearson.

For fans of: Kate Bush, Björk, Low, dreams and stars and sunsets and faraway fantasy lands.

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