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Donate to support families affected by the crisis in Ukraine ➔ Bat For Lashes Releases New Song “Letter To My Daughter”
British singer-songwriter Natasha Khan, aka Bat For Lashes released the second single called “Letter To My Daughter” from her upcoming sixth studio album “The Dream of Delphi”, following the title track on March 21, 2024.
The song is accompanied by the Michal Pudelka-directed music video.
On the video, she worked with creative director and choreographer Alexandra Green.
The track was written and produced by Jake Falby and Natasha Khan, with production by Tyler Karmen.
Natasha Khan said of the song, “This title is pretty self-explanatory. If I was on my deathbed, it's what I'd say to Delphi to give her some sense of being at home in the world, the galaxy, the universe we live in. Before Delphi was born I started writing her a book of letters, inspired by Maya Angelou's book of the same name, Letter To My Daughter.”- She continued, “It documents a very strange but magical year, full of special memories and historic worldly moments. This ride of life is always continuing and we're all just energy moving from one form into another, always. She's also just part of an echo, ancestral line or spiral in the cosmos, like the spiral that I saw in her soft hair when she was a baby. She is part of something much greater than any of us individually; she comes from the past and she comes from the future.”
The song was written after she became pregnant and the release of the previous album “Lost Girls”.
Natasha Khan said, “I was writing 'Letters to Delphi' from the time she was the size of a tomato seed. About everything that was happening in the world, like the riots after George Floyd's murder and the Black Lives Matter movement, about the pandemic and COVID, about the world that she was going to be born into.” -
Last month, she announced the release date for the new album as May 31, 2024.
The album comprises a 11-track and is named after her daughter, who was born in 2020.
She said, “I thought motherhood would take me away from my art, but it opened up this massive world.”
Photo by Michal Pudelka - source : Apple Music
