Albums
The Dream of Delphi
2024
Genre: Alternative
Release Date: 2024
By Ashley Bardhan
Reviewed June 3, 2024
The singer-songwriter’s new album tackles the tenderness of motherhood with a series of transportive, ambient-adjacent experiments.
Natasha Khan has always treated pop music like it’s spell-casting; her pinches of synth-bass and sprinkles of fantastical lyrics create an unmistakable sparkle. Over nearly 20 years performing as Bat for Lashes, the singer-songwriter has become an expert daydreamer—her last album, 2019’s Lost Girls, was written from the perspective of a female biker gang—and her theatricality has drawn frequent comparisons to Kate Bush. Then, in 2020, Khan had a baby. Her body became impossible to ignore, and its tenderness inspired her latest album. Dedicated to and named after Khan’s daughter, offers several intriguing ambient-adjacent experiments—until its enchantment fades like a half-formed thought.