The Particular Light Natasha Khan Makes

Daniel arrived at a specific moment in my life I won’t describe because I’d embarrass myself, but let’s say it found me in exactly the state a song like that is designed for—meaning I was a wreck and it was a lifeline and I’ve never quite shaken it. Two Suns is one of those records that feels genuinely epochal, the kind of thing that reshapes how you hear music for a year or two afterward. Natasha Khan operates in a register that most pop music doesn’t even attempt.

The video for "Under the Indigo Moon" is mysterious in that particular Bat for Lashes way—half ritual, half fever dream, imagery you don’t fully decode on the first or fourth viewing. What exactly she’s saying with it, I couldn’t tell you. Doesn’t matter. You give her the time anyway, because she’s earned it, and because there’s something in her work that rewards attention even when the surface is opaque. Especially then, maybe.