Bat for Lashes: Two Suns

IF KATE BUSH was the most frequent comparison cited in reviews of Natasha Khan's 2006 debut album Fur And Gold, the debt is equally palpable here. Her preoccupation with medieval, swords and sorcery nomenclature survives undiluted too. Opening track 'Glass', vocally a near perfect approximation of latter period Siouxsie, feels like a bookend to debut album curtain-raiser 'Horse And I'. The lyrics again reconcile rapture in nature and literary fantasy. Emerald cities and knights in crystal armour? It's as evocative of Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion series as anything Hawkwind ever recorded.