They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low
BAT FOR LASHESThey say for every high high there must be a low low low low low
BAT FOR LASHESAnd in a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
BAT FOR LASHESWe are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.
BAT FOR LASHESI’d tell everyone to come in naked in full body paint.
BAT FOR LASHESExploring the different avenues and being open to synchronicity and crazy coincidences and little things happening is part of going on your journey to investigate – and the little jewels you might find along the way, my job is to bring those back home and put them on my album.
BAT FOR LASHESI think what I wanted to do was meet someone who knew more than me about songwriting structure and progressions and middle eights and things that more traditional writers write and I don’t usually employ.
BAT FOR LASHESI like to get dark sometimes and then come back out into the light.
BAT FOR LASHESI did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music – just being eclectic and putting the fun back in and bringing more innocence in again is really important.
BAT FOR LASHESMusic’s free and music’s for everyone to enjoy and express and interpret. It transcends countries and times and decades.
BAT FOR LASHESI wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It’s about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
BAT FOR LASHESI’m not really frightened by experimenting – that’s the main thing. I really like mixing very old beautiful pieces that are from thrift shops or that have some historical value with quite new futuristic things.
BAT FOR LASHESI had Halloween parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
BAT FOR LASHESWhen I use electronic beats and program things, there’s something quite brain about that – you’re feeling it in your body but it’s like a puzzle you wanna solve, and it gets very detailed. I really enjoy that side of music.
BAT FOR LASHESI guess it’s subverting our expectations in terms of how we’ve come to expect women to present themselves when they’re being naked. Also the woman’s and the man’s role is subverted in that image. You’d expect the man to be carrying the woman.
BAT FOR LASHESI find it really interesting that people are shocked by the raw, natural representation of a woman and a man’s body.
BAT FOR LASHESI’ve hidden behind my hair more than clothes. Sometimes having long hair with a fringe is very useful when you don’t want to look at people. I used to have very short hair, but long hair is my thing – a black nocturnal shield.
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