Bat for Lashes is the latest super-groovy must-be-good-because-it’s-British indie sensation Natasha Khan. Natasha is Katy Perry for people who don’t like real pop music but do like videos where the cool-looking goth-lite chick singer is riding a bike down a quiet country lane at night and then suddenly turns, Krishnalike, into eight Donnie Darko scary animal-headed stunt cyclists. Bat for Lashes is perfect for people too stupid to realize that Lily Allen is the knees, bollocks and pajamas of the most enormous bee. Or who find zany drugbox Amy Whinehouse a little bit too scary. Crazy Björk’s on board the BfL bandwagon. Boring Thom Yorke has given the thumbs up. Mad-as-a- hatter Kate Bush has yet to offer an opinion. So I’ll offer one on her behalf: Bat for Lashes is the goth Enya.
Fri., May 1, 8:30. $12-$14. With Lewis and Clarke. First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St. 866.468.7619. r5productions.com
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1. reg said... on May 8, 2009 at 03:05PM
“Nice one, Swells. Just grab a few facts off the Wikipedia page - that's not lazy journalism at all. Add in the detail that you adore Lily Allen - pop's most brazenly nauseating, talentless anus to date - thus negating any tastemaking authority anyone ever thought you had. How dare anyone not pepper their songs with pop-political, observational rants. You working class-fetishising, Skunk Anansie-worshipping, bitter ex-pat cloth-eared prick.”