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Wax Pick: Bat For Lashes – Fur And Gold

Check out Natasha Khan’s critically acclaimed breakthrough album, Fur and Gold, for just a buck!

Khan was influenced by such artists as Steve Reich and Susan Hiller while earning her degree in music and visual arts. Her experimental work from those days manifests itself as sheer artistry in her current project, Bat For Lashes. Up for two Brit Awards in 2008, Best Breakthrough Act and Best Solo Female, Khan walked away from the show without an award, but with quite a bit of gained notoriety and hard earned credibility amongst successful peers-turned-fans like Thom Yorke and M.I.A.

Bat For Lashes has been compared to other female contemporaries like Bjork and Fiona Apple, and while sure to please their fans, Khan has more than cut a mould of her own.

Bat For Lashes will be releasing a new album, Two Suns, this Tuesday. You can hear the single, Daniel, here.

Bat For Lashes – Fur And Gold

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