on a posthumous brink

funny socks

cos, somehow we can’t make decisions ourselves, we tend to rely on others. and that is true of the fact that we do take certain things or people for granted. or when alcohol and dance music gets the better of you, you tend to question yourself and the intentions you set out to accomplish in the first place.  blah! that is beside the point.

the point is i’m going to go ahead on the appointed task at hand. the task that has been christened upon by a dear friend. but i got to tell her something first: nothing has made my day recently, only the fact that I had some nicely compact days and I wish more of that ahead.

Task at hand:

Brooding outfit, Bat for Lashes is back with a second lash at a career built on brooding dark lyrics.

Daniel, her first single off second album, Two Suns sounds very much like what Bat for Lashes would put out. She looks more like Rachael Yamagata and sounds a  bit like Sarah Mclachlan on this one though. The lyrics to this is as sample, love yearning towards a guy called Daniel. The dulcet beat of the drums at the beginning of the song after the first few line of lyrics is slightly hypnotic and interestingly haunting.

Much less in production than What’s a Girl to Do, Daniel manages to hold strong and still remain deliciously brooding both in lyrics and sound. Kind of reminds of earlier material that original ‘brooder’-of-an-artist, Sarah McLachlan used to put out. At the end of it all, Daniel ends on a longing note. Which begs the question, how would Two Suns be as an album. There’s only one way to find out, anticipation.

I’m still enjoying the fact that she still has that Red Indian theme of an image going on.

xoxo