Bat For Lashes – Horse & I

Horse and I- Bat For Lashes

Exactly what is it in music that can undeniably quicken your pulse? It’s impossible not to feel excitement creep up your spine as the dancing baroque harpsichord, spooky operatic backing vocals and soaring strings grow and progressively build up to the thrilling fairytale that is “Horse and I.” A militant, marching beat invades the music and sweeps it up into new levels of inexplicable urgency whilst Natasha of Bat For Lashes whispers of a mysterious midnight escapade. It is ghostly, dramatic, and evokes the romantic adventurism of Patrick Wolf’s “Gipsy King” and the fragile mysticism of Bjork’s “Pagan Poetry.” This song steals you from reality before leaving you wondering what just happened.

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