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Two Suns

Bat For Lashes

Two Suns

Hi-tech synthpop from the Mercury nominated Anglo-Pakistani Natasha Khan

ADM rating[?]

7.4

Label
EMI
UK Release date
06/04/2009
  1. 10.0 |   The Sunday Times

    An extraordinary, devastating album that haunts like a dream and cuts like a knife. You must buy it, now.
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  2. 8.5 |   Pitchfork

    During Two Suns' highlights, Khan has few peers.
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  3. 8.0 |   Observer Music Monthly

    In a year when no one wants to sing about making a cup of tea, she's just the ticket.
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  4. 8.0 |   Scotland on Sunday

    A multi-instrumentalist and robust songwriter, Khan is good and getting better. 
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  5. 8.0 |   Spin

    The rare concept album that's better for the bedroom than for bong hits.
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  6. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    Fantastic as well as fantastical.
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  7. 8.0 |   Clash

    Like Kate Bush before her, Khan creates uncompromising, heartbreaking music that sits in a singular, eerie landscape. It’s a joy that she lets us in.
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  8. 8.0 |   Daily Telegraph

    The ever-present threat of all-eclipsing darkness that gives Two Suns its edge and makes this an album that really is quite exceptional.
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  9. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    This record is one made with the artist’s full investment, every ounce of heart and soul poured into it visible for all to see.
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  10. 8.0 |   Evening Standard

    More complex and stylistically adventurous than her debut.
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  11. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    A dense, intricate album that features at least six brilliant songs, two of which are pure pop gems.
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  12. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    Don't read any interviews and don't read the lyrics. Just enjoy the music.
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  13. 8.0 |   NME

    Epic in scope and ambition and requires a similarly epic patience to unravel its charms.
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  14. 8.0 |   The Times

    Pearl’s Dream is quite simply a blast, a worthy offspring to Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill and Fleetwood Mac’s Big Love.
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  15. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    Lilting, pagan-like folk songs are offset by slivers of experimentalism, off-kilter rhythms, tinny synthesisers and quirky song structures.
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  16. 8.0 |   The Scotsman

    For this album, Khan has created an alter ego called Pearl, her New York party self, who is depicted on the back of the sleeve by Khan in a blonde wig.
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  17. 7.0 |   Observer Music Monthly

    It confirms what a sharp tunesmith lurks beneath the hippyish persona.
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  18. 6.0 |   Blender

    Soundtrack to a hipster renaissance fair—primal pop songs accessorized with flutes, bells and harmonium—this time the topic is love. 
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  19. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    It’s doubtful that Khan will ever make anything unlistenably bad. The question—and the pressure—is how she can best evolve now, given the level of experimentation she’s done from the start.
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  20. 6.0 |   The Quietus

    Can occasionally feel unsubstantial. Yet it's a broadly impressive album, though not, perhaps, the wholly compelling one Khan will surely one day make.
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  21. 5.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    Natasha Khan: a Brightonian Björk, or the indie Dido? The jury’s still out, but for much of the second Bat for Lashes album, the verdict’s not looking good. 
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  22. 4.0 |   The Independent

    The arcane flavours of zither and harpsichord that gave Fur and Gold its piquancy have mostly gone, replaced by a blander patina of keyboard tones.
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