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Bat For Lashes Biography

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.

Bat For Lashes’ 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 – 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 – 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.

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Khan Is Batty For Beck

1st June 2010

BAT FOR LASHES star NATASHA KHAN and BECK look set to create a new superduo after working together....

Lily Allen And Dizzee Lead The Ivors

20th April 2010

Lily Allen and Dizzee Rascal have been nominated for two Ivor Novello Awards. The....

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Bat For Lashes Video and Audio

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Bat For Lashes Reviews

Bat For Lashes, Two Suns Album Review

25th March 2009

Review of Bat For Lashes album 'Two Suns' released through The Echo Label. Bridging the gap between Mother...

Bat For Lashes, What's A Girl To Do?, Single Review

11th June 2007

'What's a Girl To Do?' uses mystifying keyboard sounds matched with the convincing voice of Bat For Lashes. I think...

Bat For Lashes, Trophy, Single Review

9th November 2006

Originally the pseudonym of Natasha Khan, Bat For Lashes now consist also of Ginger Lee, Abi Fry and recent addition...

Bat For Lashes, Fur And Gold, Album Review

31st July 2006

There are no really glaringly obvious standout songs, and hooks are few and far between, but what you do get is a...

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