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VIDEO: Bat For Lashes – Lilies

• 20th Feb 2013

Natasha Khan aka Bat For Lashes has unveiled this stop motion video for her latest single Lilies ahead of her BRIT awards nomination for Best Female tonight.

“The concept of the ‘Lilies’ video really came to me in quite a subconscious way” says Natasha of the latest release “Perhaps it was the lyric about children all coming to my door with bottles of dreams, but I wanted the video to contain that kind of childlike surrealism. I wanted the verses to be minimal, in darkness, perhaps illuminated by the beams of a lighthouse.

And then I thought the choruses needed to bloom visually, as the music does. The idea of introducing puppets and references to psychedelic English animations and landscape felt very fitting with the themes of the song. I wanted to reference all the dark childhood fantasy films I watched as a child, like Labyrinth and Roald Dahl and Terry Gilliam films”.

Bat for Lashes will co-headline Field Day in Victoria Park, London with Animal Collective on 25 May 2013