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Text: Top 10 LP’s of 2009

Beyond the first 3, it gets complicated. It gets into albums that are great, but not perfect. These first 3, are perfect. If you want to know more about them, follow my tags, I’ve posted plenty from each of them this year.

Dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
Going labelless allowed them to stretch out their progressive tendencies again. Simultaneously, this is their most accessible and pop-hook-driven album.
Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
There’s a cacophony of internet bloggers who’ve probably already told you plenty about Natasha Khan’s wonderful music.
Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
French shoegazey post-punk black metal. I’m surprised it exists, too. Blending those influences was clearly such a feat that it tore the band apart just as they finished their first and only full-length. Not to worry, the many echoes of this project will continue in the members’ other projects (Alcest, Les Discrets, Peste Noire, Lantlos), but this melting pot is perfect, possibly moreso for not being muddled by followup albums.

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Bat For Lashes
“Sleep Alone”

I’m not sure who directed this — it may have been Natasha Khan herself — but it’s a beautifully shot video, and I’d love to know who filmed it, etc. Without being overly literal, the clip interprets and complements the song’s balance of deep loneliness and unwavering faith by presenting sadness and lovelessness as a necessary first step on the path to self-discovery and adventure. Also, Natasha is astoundingly gorgeous in this thing.

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Photo: (via dvvg) Did I post this already? If not, I am remiss. Natasha Khan <3

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Did I post this already? If not, I am remiss. Natasha Khan <3

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“Glass”
Live on KCRW 2009

Nice performance, though it’s not the most exciting thing to watch, given the location and the way it is shot. I do love the interview with Natasha Khan that follows — the questions are pretty basic, but it’s always a joy to listen to her speak. I especially enjoy when she talks about her childhood in a leafy British suburb.

I love interviews where the interviewer is really into it, and goes way off the beaten path with questions.

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Bat For Lashes
“Sleep Alone”

This is by far my favorite video from 2009, and I do not say that just because Natasha Khan looks incredibly, amazingly, astonishingly beautiful in it. Without being overly literal, the clip interprets and complements the song’s balance of deep loneliness and unwavering faith by presenting sadness and lovelessness as a necessary first step on the path to self-discovery and adventure. “For every high, there must be a low, low, low, low.”

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Photo: bsqv: kat middleton gets back today and we start our countdown to THIS show. several lines of bold italicized symbols, punctuation and capital letters would seem muted relative to my excitement. illustrativo:ngm:nevver: Andrew Bannecker Two weeks, minus a day.

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kat middleton gets back today and we start our countdown to THIS show.

several lines of bold italicized symbols, punctuation and capital letters would seem muted relative to my excitement.

illustrativo:ngm:nevver: Andrew Bannecker

Two weeks, minus a day.

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“Good Love”
Live in Brussels, 5/15/2009

“Good Love” is a thoroughly exhausting song, the kind that drags you into its dark, lonely emotional space whether you want to be there or not. The arrangement, both funereal and ethereal in tone, has a gravitational pull that is seductive and difficult to escape, but the most affecting thing is Natasha Khan’s vocal performance, which moves between heavily accented spoken passages and sung parts that convey a frustrated, incredibly painful sort of yearning. The pain seems to be the point. As Khan intones early on, her character needs sorrow like a drug, and so when she goes on to ask “Will I ever find that place they call good love?,” your heart just breaks for her, because it’s so clear that a heart addicted to misery is unlikely to ever find that love. It’s tragic. Who would need it more? (originally posted 4/8/2009)

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“Siren Song”
Morning Becomes Eclectic 2009

I can barely describe to you how much it totally tears my heart out when Natasha sings “My name is Pearl and I love you the best way I know how.” I don’t even fully understand it. It kills.

Oh. My. God. I can’t wait to see her at the Parish.

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