“With each album, I go through a really kind of terrifying period before I know what form it’s gonna take so I feel like I’m just in a void.” That’s Natasha Khan discussing the lead up to The Haunted Man, which gave us one of last year’s best singles in “Laura,” a re...

Bat For Lashes just released her new video for “A Wall,” a shivery song from The Haunted Man. Noel Paul, who directed Natasha Khan in Bat For Lashes’ “Laura” and “All Your Gold” videos, once again helms, as a blond-wigged and extravagantly drunk Khan enjoys the company of a du...

Over the weekend, Bat For Lashes returned to Later … With Jools Holland to perform a dramatic version of The Haunted Man single “Laura.” Watch it below. The Haunted Man is out now on Capitol.

Here’s a weird and indefensible but completely genuine reaction that much-anticipated new albums sometimes provoke: I wish it was better. It’s one thing if a band you like suddenly shits the bed on a new album; God knows, that happens enough. But when someone follows up a record that hit a chord deep within you [...]

At this point, we’ve already heard a lot of the new Bat For Lashes album The Haunted Man; “A Wall,” “Oh Yeah” and “Winter Fields” hit the web last week after “All Your Gold,” “Marilyn” and “Laura” struck previously. Now, via NPR’s First Listen series, you...