Lost Girls is the fifth studio album by English singer-songwriter Natasha Khan, known professionally as Bat for Lashes. It was released on 6 September 2019 through AWAL. It is Khan's follow up to 2016's The Bride. The lead single "Kids in the Dark" was released on 10 June 2019.
Khan has cited 1980s music and cinema as an inspiration for the record, citing artists such as Bananarama, Cyndi Lauper and The Blue Nile as well as film composer John Williams in an interview with The Line of Best Fit.
Promotion Khan teased a release on 10 June 2019 through early June, posting short videos to her social media accounts. One featured a snippet of music and a number for a hotline on a poster, which, when dialled, asked callers to leave a message about a lost girl named Nikki. Khan formally announced the album and release of the lead single on 10 June.
Critical reception
Lost Girls was met with generally favorable reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 76, based on 22 reviews.
Accolades Publication Accolade Rank Crack Magazine Top 50 Albums of 2019 49 Gaffa Top 30 Albums of 2019 12 Good Morning America Top 50 Albums of 2019 1 The Independent The 50 best albums of the year - 2019 47 MusicOMH Top 50 Albums of 2019 44 Rough Trade Albums of the Year - 2019 19 Under the Radar Top 100 Albums of 2019 12
Track listing Adapted from Apple Music.
Charts Chart (2019) Peakposition Australian Digital Albums (ARIA) 39 US Independent Albums 14 US Current Album Sales 41
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