Bat For Lashes - Trophy

Review by Mike Diver

Bat For Lashes, perhaps, isn’t meant for this world: her lyrical landscapes belong in a fairytale, the imaginary environs of a bedtime tale told to generation after generation beside a barely flickering fire. Skilled in the way of the metaphor, Natasha Khan – for she is the woman behind this affecting voice – paints a thousand pictures with a single word, the forms of her creatures of mercy forever morphing and evolving across the course of this song...»