Bat For Lashes

Boy, have we missed Bat for Lashes. It’s been nearly three years since her brilliantly bizarre and beautiful debut album Fur and Gold arrived to fill a Kate Bush shaped hole in our lives; three years in which the dull self-destruction of Amy Winehouse and tabloid tomfoolery of Lily Allen have made us yearn for her special mix of lush melody and fantastical lyrics about mystic horses and trophies.

Thankfully, the wait is over with 'Daniel’, the lead single from her new album Two Suns, which sees the real-life Natasha Khan conjure a genuinely fantastic pop song without compromising the original eccentricity which initially made her so enrapturing. 'I dream of home', she breathily sings over maddeningly catchy and ethereal synthesisers and booming steel drums, before the whole thing culminates in a fantastic sing-along chorus which is guaranteed to rattle around your brain for days. It’s been a long three years.