Bat For Lashes

Natasha Khan could have followed in the footsteps of her family and played squash. Whilst i would love to play squash with her, i must say that i am happy she chose music over squash. However, if she had chosen squash i would never have had the confusion of wondering how the Klaxons managed to beat her dulcet sounds to take out the Mercury prize. can anybody explain this conundrum???... MORE

Bat For Lashes' lovely Natasha Khan is preparing to go back in the studio to record a second album. Khan begins recording the follow-up to Fur and Gold next week in New York. According to NME :

Khan claims the album will have a darker, more electronic feel than her more pastoral, keyboard-led debut, saying: “I don't think it could be too wildly different because it always comes from the heart and that's coming from the same place, but I think it's gonna be more visceral

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The rise of strong female vocalists was definitely placed in the limelight this year. Aside from the over-monopolization of the larger pop radio names, some of the most astounding female voices have made their presence known within the last few years. The overnight successes of artists like Rilo Kiley, Tegan and Sara, Regina Spektor, and Feist, just to name a few, have paved the way for a greater acceptance of the feminine song recently.
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This post is the equivalent of showing up at a birthday party two hours late and yelling "surprise!" as people look up while scarfing down their second piece of cake. Contrabandwidth...
http://mog.com/contrabandwidth/blog_post/107997 and Dachmo...
http://mog.com/dachmo/blog_post/107913 ...have been all over this... but even though I'm late to the party, I'm going to yell it anyway... (feel free to throw cake at me...) This is an amazing video (in the ... MORE

Bat For Lashes. Amazing.
From Brighton England. The singer, Natasha Khan, has a beautiful voice and the songs are well composed. Not your average songs, either, which I always admire. I wish I could describe them better, but I definitely do not have the best music vocab.
Here's my favorite song by them... MORE

Last weekend I had a visit to my lovely city from Zeroskilz. We hit the town HARD, and so for our last hurrah on Sunday, we shifted down to a low gear for Bat for Lashes. Opening was Chris Chavez. This guy was an amazing one-man-band. He was rather earnst and spirital for me (he did lots of the praying hands/bowing thing) but he had a Kings of Leon bluesy sound to him and would play a 12 string guitar AND a regular acoustic guitar _at the same time!_ Sounded... MORE

Well, more like the high school dance where I notice her and she doesn't know I'm alive. Well I will be leaving the friendly confines of Austin next week to go up to New York and will be going to see Bat For Lashes at the Bowery Ballroom. If any other Moggers are there, I'll be the very tall guy bopping along to the music...point and laugh and then ask me, "Do you MOG ?"... MORE

Hello fellow moggers. I am currently listening to a wonderful group called Bat For Lashes. A very talented singer/ songwriter who will be performing in Philadelphia this month. Sunday, September 23rd at Johnny and Brenda's along with the ever fabulous Lewis and Clark. So like I said, Hooray for Bat!... MORE

from their website: "Yesterday (Aug 30th), Bat For Lashes performed an exclusive session for Radio 1 at Maida Vale Studios. The day culminated in an exclusive collaboration between the Nationwide Mercury Nominees Bat For Lashes, Fionn Regan and Maps. They performed a cover of Primal Scream's - 'Higher Than The Sun'. You can view the video of the session below"

Higher Than The Sun

Primal Scream's original is left unscathed, should have been so much bet... MORE

Bat For Lashes will be returning for a three week tour, according to Pitchfork . They'll be touring with Lewis & Clark. Here are the dates:

09-01 Argyll, Scotland - Connect Festival
09-02 Stradbally, Ireland - Electric Picnic
09-09 Isle of Wight, England - Bestival
09-23 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's *
09-24 Boston, MA - Great Scott *
09-25 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom *
09-28 Toronto, Ontario - El Macambo *
09-29 Montreal, Quebec - Petit Campus

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But it is a cool band with a girl that looks like Lily Allen and her BMX gang of humanoid animals!
I secretly beleive they are Ok Go, since this video shares the same brilliant simplicity that is comic genius...

Sociological experiments be damned I would've posted this anyway. BfL doing Springsteen.

It's been too long since I've posted on my own little social networking experiment. But thanks to dachmo posting about how he missed out on my little Bat For Lashes obsession (in the name of science), I decided to give an update on the whole process.
Last time I posted, Ms. For Lashes was at 47 in the MOG 100 . She now has slowed her crawl to #1 at #23. That's pretty good considering her album is almost a year old and look at her competition. I have been a bi... MORE

I missed out when contrabandwidth was pushing this new smack now I'm all strung out and jonesing for more. I need to see a "Behind the scenes: Making of" for this video. I'll post it if I find something. Oh, yeah! and this guy might be the coolest dude on MOG . He's got a great ear for music, rummage around his page for awhile. leobu
I have no idea what he's saying, but the music's great.... MORE