I wanted to photograph myself in that situation and just see what it made me feel.”Ĭompared to her debut, Two Suns is more beat programming, drums-driven. “I really just did it as an experiment of dressing up myself with quite garish extreme feminine make-up. Pearl is featured on three songs: “Siren Song”, “Pearl’s Dream” and the closing track “The Big Sleep”.
The album explores the idea of duality (two lovers, two planets, two sides of a personality, two landscapes – the city and the desert) and metaphysical ideas concerning the connections between all existence.ĭuring her stay in New York, Khan would dress up as Pearl, her destructive New Yorker alter ego who acted as a direct foil to Khan’s more mystical, desert-born spiritual self. It was produced by Natasha Khan herself and David Kosten, who also worked on her debut album, Fur and Gold. Two Suns is Bat for Lashes' second studio album, released on 3 April 2009.
