Daniel (Bat for Lashes song)

"Daniel"
Single by Bat for Lashes
from the album Two Suns
Released1 March 2009 (2009-03-01)
StudioNatasha Khan's house, Brighton; Bryn Derwen Studios, Wales; Magic Shop Studios, New York City; DK Studio, London
Genre
Length3:29 (radio edit)
4:09 (album version)
LabelParlophone
Songwriter(s)Natasha Khan
Producer(s)
Bat for Lashes singles chronology
"What's a Girl to Do?"
(2007)
"Daniel"
(2009)
"Pearl's Dream"
(2009)

"Daniel" is a song by English recording artist Bat for Lashes, from her second studio album, Two Suns. It is her best-selling single to date, selling over 46,000 copies worldwide. The song was announced as the lead single from Two Suns in January 2009, then released as a digital download single on 1 March 2009, and as a 7" vinyl single on 6 April 2009. The track was written by Natasha Khan and produced by David Kosten, as with all tracks on the album. Ira Wolf Tuton from Yeasayer provided the bass lines for the song and Khan did the rest of the instrumentation herself.[4]

The single's cover features Khan with an image of the character Daniel LaRusso, from the film The Karate Kid, painted on her back. A character much like LaRusso also features at the end of the music video which goes with the song. The B-side of the 7", 'A Forest' is a cover version of the 1980 single by The Cure of the same name.

  1. ^ O'Neal, Sean (7 April 2009). "Bat For Lashes: Two Suns". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  2. ^ "The 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time 200-101". NME.com. 31 January 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  3. ^ Gill, Andy (3 April 2009). "Album: Bat For Lashes, Two Suns (Parlophone)". The Independent. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  4. ^ "Daniel". Songfacts.com. Retrieved 2009-12-29.