Does the world need a second coming of Kate Bush? I have no idea, but I'll take the second coming of anything if it can make a record as good as Bat for Lashes' Two Suns, which will close out the year on the top of my best of '09 list if some unseen masterpiece doesn't fly out of nowhere in the next seven weeks.
"Siren Song" (here's the studio version, which truth be told has an edge that's hard to capture playing live on the radio in Santa Monica at nine in the morning, as Bat for Lashes, nee Natasha Khan, does in this clip), is a subdued yet menacing terror with perfectly bare lyrics, and all without ever developing a steady beat. An artist this capable = someone we'll still be talking about ten years down the road.
