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No. 28: Natasha Khan Does Not Want You To Be Her Baby As evidenced by the Bat For Lashes song at No. 28, which combines Wall Of Sound drums and girl-group choruses with a real-time description of falling out of love.

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Nu-rave banner-hoisters Klaxons win the Mercury Prize, the award given to the best British or Irish album of the last 12 months. Yes, really. OK, OK, "Golden Skans" is a pretty good song. But really? Klaxons? Did Natasha Khan run over someone's bunny with her bike or something? [Guardian Music Blog / Photo: Getty Images]

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Hitching A Ride With Bat For Lashes' Bike Troupe


Bat For Lashes' clip for "What's A Girl To Do?" is one of my favorite videos of the year so far—how can you be immune to the charms of a one-take movie that's completely focused on mask-wearing bike riders executing jumps in unison?—and Paper Thin Walls has a chat with the clip's director, Dougal Wilson, up today. Fun fact: Donnie Darko wasn't the only movie that inspired the video; that honor can be shared by the closing scene of E.T. and The Wicker Man. Let's just hope it was the original, because while it's a terrible, terrible movie, that punch-drunk remake with Nicolas Cage somehow managed to be worse.

Rabbit In Your Fill Light [Paper Thin Walls]
What's A Girl To Do? [YouTube]

11:30 AM on Fri Aug 24 2007
By mjohnston
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We're probably the 10,000th music blog to link to this live Bat For Lashes session on Morning Becomes Eclectic, but Natasha Khan is a pretty stunning artist, and I'm still kicking myself for missing her show last week, so this will have to suffice. [Morning Becomes Eclectic]

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Idolator Goes UKrazy Over Bat For Lashes

An Idolator operative brought Fur and Gold by Bat For Lashes—a Chan Marshall/Cat Power-style alias for the Brighton singer/pianist Natasha Khan—home from London last week, and it's been on heavy rotation ever since; it's full of gloomily delicate laments that bring to mind the best moments of Kate Bush and To Bring You My Love-era PJ Harvey. The brooding, low-end-heavy "Trophy," which features the preacher man's son Josh T Pearson, is one of Fur and Gold's standout tracks, and it's linked below. More »

1:08 PM on Mon Sep 18 2006
By mjohnston
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Latest by Maura Johnston: It's fixed now -- thanks for the heads-up! more »