New Bat For Lashes Video - "Daniel"
When posting about favorite Two Suns moments -- opener "Glass" with its Brian Chippendale drums, "The Big Sleep"'s Scott Walker turn, and the new single "Daniel" -- I called the latter a "chilly, running-in-the-dark dance-floor love song." How about a chilly, driving-in-the-dark love song? Which is what an in-training Natasha Khan does after fighting off faceless, Knife-esque modern dancers (seemingly made of cinder and rain) in the song's rather excellent Johan Renck-directed video. As you might have noticed when we posted "Daniel"'s cover art yesterday, Khan's indeed addressing Daniel LaRusso (aka Ralph Macchio) from The Karate Kid. Fittingly, Daniel-san shows up as well.
Between this and Handsome Furs' "I'm Confused," it's a good week for creepy chase videos that end in embraces.
Two Suns is out 4/6 via Astralwerks. It's got Yeasayer's Ira Wolf Tuton playing bass on this track and "Pearl's Dream."
Posted at 11:11 AM by brandon in Video
Tags: Bat For Lashes | Yeasayer
I love this song alot, and the album is pretty good but I am NOT getting visual /design aesthetic she is going for. The album cover is like a crappy photoshop boff and this video is teenage goth but not in a cool way. Colour me confused
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wow, this is absolutely gorgeous
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am i missing something? is that NOT lily allen?
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I AM LOVING THIS NOD TO THE KARATE KID!!!! so fucking clever. i love love love her.
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sexiest woman in music right now. have you seen her fader shoot? **pulls out the lubriderm**
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gross
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What happened to her style?
Her clothes - they used to be so beautiful
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natasha nicks-bush
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is anyone else in love with that violin melody ? reminds me of the end of The Smiths' "Well I Wonder". this is cool.
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I'm a Huge fan, but this video is pretty bad... I get the all crappy Karate Kid concept, but... This is just bad. I'll stick with the What's a girl to do video...
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i don't really care about the video, the song is fucking awesome, as is the majority of this cd.
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They blew it with the fonts...and even the Ralph M tat is a bit too much..there was only one George Martin after all...
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forget LaRusso, the best cameo in that vid is the actual stationwagon from Karate Kid!!
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Silly video. Who thinks of this stuff? Amazing tune trashed by the visuals. Bleh.
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I liked the video, damn. Don't know why no one likes it. Thought it was well done
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