Khan revealed to Rolling Stone Australia: "I scrapped everything I’d done on it four days before we were supposed to finish the album, it was a pop song girl-groupy Shangri-Las sounding thing. The record company were quite pleased about it and I was like, ‘Nooooo, I want warped, weird strings all over it and I want it to be really scary and dark!‘ And they were like, ‘Oh no’, but I just wasn’t happy with it, and I knew it wasn’t happy being dressed up in those clothes." (http://rollingstoneaus.com/music/post/bat-for-lashes-interview-the-bride/4389-page-1)
"Close Encounters" is described by Natasha Khan as being "about making love to someone from the other side." (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/07/natasha-khan-bat-for-lashes-new-album-the-bride)
Khan revealed to Rolling Stone Australia: "I scrapped everything I’d done on it four days before we were supposed to finish the album, it was a pop song girl-groupy Shangri-Las sounding thing. The record company were quite pleased about it and I was like, ‘Nooooo, I want warped, weird strings all over it and I want it to be really scary and dark!‘ And they were like, ‘Oh no’, but I just wasn’t happy with it, and I knew it wasn’t happy being dressed up in those clothes." (http://rollingstoneaus.com/music/post/bat-for-lashes-interview-the-bride/4389-page-1)