{"id":798276,"date":"2019-08-06T09:28:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T15:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=867938"},"modified":"2019-08-06T09:28:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T15:28:41","slug":"bat-for-lashes-conducts-seance-in-the-desert-in-the-hunger-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/bat-for-lashes-conducts-seance-in-the-desert-in-the-hunger-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Bat for Lashes Conducts Seance in the Desert in \u2018The Hunger\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/vid.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bat-for-lashes\/\">Bat for Lashes<\/a> released a self-directed video for \u201cThe Hunger\u201d on Tuesday, depicting a witchy seance in the desert. The track appears on her forthcoming album <em>Lost Girls<\/em>, out September 6th.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Hunger\u201d shows Bat for Lashes, aka Natasha Khan, hugging and blessing a group of women on a flat desert plane. The group conduct ritualistic dances and movements out in the sun, with an implied spiritual undercurrent running through the clip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started this song with this organ sound on a really old \u201980s synth,\u201d Khan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/2019\/08\/06\/bat-for-lashes-new-song-the-hunger?utm_source=tftw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> <em>The Fader<\/em>. \u201cThen [co-writer\/producer] Charles Scott IV brought in his bass, and every time we were adding more and more stuff it was getting closer to this particular feeling that I wanted. There\u2019s nothing like this feeling of translating something that\u2019s in your DNA, part of who you are energetically, coming out in music. Like it matches a thumbprint inside of you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bat for Lashes previously released the singles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bat-for-lashes-kids-in-the-dark-video-watch-855158\/\">\u201cKids in the Dark\u201d<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bat-for-lashes-song-feel-for-you-listen-863825\/\">\u201cFeel for You.\u201d<\/a> Earlier this year, she released&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-bat-for-lashes-explore-supernatural-romance-in-new-short-film-204603\/\"><em>Light Beings<\/em><\/a>, her second film project, starring Margaret Qualley of&nbsp;<em>The Leftovers<\/em>. Pre-orders of <em>Lost Girls<\/em> are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batforlashes.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">available now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bat-for-lashes-the-hunger-video-867938\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bat for Lashes released a self-directed video for \u201cThe Hunger\u201d on Tuesday, depicting a witchy seance in the desert. The track appears on her forthcoming album Lost Girls, out September 6th. \u201cThe Hunger\u201d shows Bat for Lashes, aka Natasha Khan, hugging and blessing a group of women on a flat desert plane. The group conduct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-798276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 08:10:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}