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April 8th, 2009 7:58am

My Heart Caught Fire


Bat For Lashes “Good Love”

“Good Love” is a thoroughly exhausting song, the kind that drags you into its dark, lonely emotional space whether you want to be there or not. The arrangement, both funereal and ethereal in tone, has a gravitational pull that is seductive and difficult to escape, but the most affecting thing is Natasha Khan’s vocal performance, which moves between heavily accented spoken passages and sung parts that convey a frustrated, incredibly painful sort of yearning. The pain seems to be the point. As Khan intones early on, her character needs sorrow like a drug, and so when she goes on to ask “Will I ever find that place they call good love?,” your heart just breaks for her, because it’s so clear that a heart addicted to misery is unlikely to ever find that love. It’s tragic. Who would need it more?

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