Bat For Lashes has shared new single ‘Letter To My Daughter’.
The acclaimed songwriter will return this spring, sharing her new album ‘The Dream Of Delphi’ on May 31st through Mercury KX. An album film has been produced produced in collaboration with creative director and choreographer Alexandra Green and directed by Freddie Leyden, and the second chapter has just gone online.
Out now, ‘Letter To My Daughter’ opens with undulating Boards Of Canada esque synths, before forming itself into a true pearl of a song. Coming from the heart, the lyrics should be taken as read – there’s no subtext here, simply pure emotion.
Taking its title from Maya Angelou, ‘Letter To My Daughter’ meditates on feminine energy, inter-generational bonds, and the indescribable experience of motherhood.
Bat For Lashes comments…
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.
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.
Tune in now.
Photo Credit: Michal Pudelka
