Bat For Lashes – just released ‘At Your Feet’, the fourth single from her forthcoming sixth studio album ‘The Dream Of Delphi’, out May 31st via acclaimed label Mercury KX. ‘At Your Feet’ is accompanied by a stunning music video, drawn from the album’s visual counterpart ‘The Dream Of Delphi – A New Transmission’, a 34-minute film heralding a new era for the three time Brit Award and Mercury Prize nominee.
‘At Your Feet’ settles an aptly cinematic, bittersweet piano melody on the soft support system of a gorgeous synth bass. “ I improvised this song, all the piano and vocoder parts, from start to finish”, says Khan. “The words are all about the hallucinatory state of being sleep deprived in the night, breastfeeding, rocking the baby: so tired, so aware that I almost have no say in this devotional nocturnal practice of caring for my child.”
‘The Dream of Delphi – A New Transmission’ is a visual narrative that accompanies the calling, the creating and birthing of a child, with an exploration of both the human rawness that surrounds that experience and the mythical and universal realisations that have occurred for Natasha during her journey of motherhood. The dance pieces include partner work that explores the pressures, bonding, and tenderness that occurs when lovers become parents, and the dances with the two women hint at Natasha’s relationship with the midwives, the best friends and the sisterhood she felt she so badly needed around the birth of her daughter. The choreography – based on the simple and mundane actions of everyday life – highlights the stark beauty within simplicity and mundanity, by weaving together raw emotions into a series of dance theatre moments that are emblematic of the way that a relationship changes, shifts and also breaks down; movements developed by Khan as part of her all-new live show, first teased at Meltdown Festival last summer.
The Dream Of Delphi Tracklist:
1. The Dream Of Delphi
2. Christmas Day
3. Letter To My Daughter
4. At Your Feet
5. The Midwives Have Left
6. Home (Single Version)
7. Breaking Up
8. Delphi Dancing
9. Her First Morning
10. Waking Up
11. The Dream of Delphi (Bonus Extended Strings Version)
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Photo credit – Michal Pudelka