Bat For Lashes — Lost Girls Electro-funk recalling his favourite sample from

recalling his favourite sample from the Brooklyn legend

Harlem River features eight interweaving tales of tragedy and misfortune from a series of desperate characters playing out their dramas with the city as backdrop

Anyone who has lived and tried to thrive in New York won't have a hard time relating to the lyrics but they may join the masses who blame the city

the modern and arty youth of the early 1980s set itself to jettison a movement that had lost much of the nihilistic and exhilarating energy of its halcyon days

tearing down genre barriers

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