Bat For Lashes - Fur and Gold - mp3 review
August 9th, 2007 r8e8rcomI woke up the other night to a tree coming through my window. I was still in that wake-sleep state and couldn’t tell what the hell was going on. Water was pouring into my apartment in buckets and when I tried to look outside all I could see was a wash of rain, like my apartment was at the bottom of an ocean. There was a loud roar like a train going by and I thought ’this cant be real I must be dreaming’. I think I put a cardboard box against the broken window and went back to sleep. I woke up the next day and find my window is actually broken and there is a puddle of water in my apartment. When I get outside I see trees covering the sidewalks and streets. It wasn’t until later that day that I found out I slept through a fucking tornado just a few blocks from my house.
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, Natasha’s work dwells in the elemental, emerging in timeless forms. 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. Recorded in London and Brighton, Natasha co-produced the album with David Kosten (Faultline). These tracks are from ‘Fur and Gold’, on Caroline which was released August 2nd.
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