Artist : Bat For Lashes
Album : Fur And Gold
Label : EMI
Genre : Indie
Bitrate : 162 kbps avg
Source : CD (LP)
Playtime : 00:45:16 (55.4MB)
Rls date : 2007-06-28
Store date : 2007-06-29
[Track List]
1. Horse And I 3:04
2. Trophy 4:00
3. Tahiti 3:38
4. What's A Girl To Do? 2:58
5. Sad Eyes 4:16
6. The Wizard 4:16
7. Prescilla 3:34
8. Bat's Mouth 4:25
9. Seal Tubilee 4:44
10.Sarah 3:57
11.I Saw A Light 6:24
Bat For Lashes is the work of British singer/songwriter,
multi-instrumentalist and visual artist Natasha Khan. Born
in 1979, yet combining influences that span decades,
NatashaÆs work dwells in the elemental, emerging in
timeless forms.
Bat For LashesÆ music is bold and vivid. Her live shows,
with accomplices Ginger Lee, Abi Fry and Lizzy Carey, are
made up of thunderous marching band drums, desert guitar,
ballet school piano, harpsichord, sub-bass snarls,
hand-claps and naive beats, with the women fluidly
switching and swapping their instruments between songs.
There are also interludes of exquisite heartbreak; the
piano ballad 'Sad Eyes' has on more than one occasion left
audience members in tears. Her debut album Fur and Gold is
a very special record, a cohesive collection of songs so
haunting and mesmerizing it makes a striking impression on
all who hear it.
It was whilst working as a nursery school teacher,
following her university degree in film and music, that
Fur and Gold album opener 'Horse & I' came to Natasha in a
dream. Inspired by tales of Joan of Arc, Natasha is woken
by a black horse at the window and sent on a fateful
quest. This extraordinary dream became the muse for the
songs that now comprise Fur and Gold.
Recorded in London and Brighton, Natasha co-produced the
album with David Kosten (Faultline). Recurrent themes of
natural forces and animal kingdoms, rugged English cliff
tops and engulfing oceans û highlighted on the lament
'Seal Jubilee', are juxtaposed by the energy of rough
urban living, teenage bedrooms and the freedom of
California highways. Josh T Pearson (Lift To Experience)
guests, adding guitar and vocals on three tracks û the
brooding live favorite 'Trophy', 'Seal Jubilee' and the
finale 'I Saw A Light', adding the kind of hymns and chaos
that only the son of a preacher could provide.
Bat For Lashes played her first big show in London
supporting CocoRosie at the Scala at the end of 2005. A
year later almost to the day, Bat For Lashes headlined a
sold out Scala, where the likes of Bjork, Nellee Hooper
and Brett Anderson were to be seen in the sold out crowd.
Other fans include Devendra Banhart, Jarvis Cocker and
Thom Yorke (who chose 'Horse & I' for his iTunes Top Ten
Playlist, saying "I love the harpsichord and the sexual
ghost voices and bowed saws. This song seems to come from
the world of Grimm's fairytales, and I feel like a wolf.")
Having spent parts of her childhood in Pakistan, Natasha
Khan now lives by the sea in England.