Fur And Gold - Bat For Lashes

Natasha Khan, who under the pseudonym ‘Bat For Lashes’ has so far released two albums which were both nominated for Mercury Music Awards, has a massive crush on me. Absolutely huge. The poor girl could barely put two syllables together when I went to see her in concert, because she couldn’t stop looking at me. And y’know what? I have a crush on her too. She’s a fantastic singer/songwriter type, although she’s more Kate Bush than Kt Tunstall. She ...
...her music in a nice comfy blanket of spirituality, whilst feeding a tame wolf and painting with all the colours of the wind. Y’know – odd stuff. She accompanies her lyrics and haunted vocals with liberal dashes of harpsichord and violins, but don’t hold any of this against her, because it’s not pretentious music whatsoever. It’ll get you a stern nod of acceptance from hipsters, but at the same time it’s actually listenable and sets an atmospheric ...

Seresecros 13.08.2009 · Read full review
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...albums from this undoubted talent. Fur and Gold does have stronger tracks than others but still deserves its place when best albums of 2007 are discussed. This was my first ever review and was asked to add a bit more about why I like it so here goes...I like it because for me it is quite unique in its sound. True you could probably gage a few comparisons with fellow singer songwriter Tori Amos from the high use of keyboards and pianos but its the ...
...autoharp and the way these instruments make a sound that resembles pop music. Each track seems carefully crafted. My two favourite tracks 'Prescilla' and 'Wizard' are quite contrasting; the former has the claps that underpin the whole song, keeping an uptempo rthymn throughout. The later, is a dark, hauting homeage to the 'wizard' character that musically builds slowly. There are no two tracks that sound the same even though instrumentally is doesnt ...

dtait07 28.12.2007 (30.12.2007) · Read full review
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