Fur & Gold - Bat for Lashes
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81 out of 100

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8.3 out of 10

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  • Summary: The debut album was nominated for the Mercury Prize for best British album this year.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. musicOMH.com
    100
    Fur and Gold announces Natasha Khan's Bat For Lashes as a talent impossible to ignore and beguiling to behold, an album that, time and again, plucks one away from the mundane and offers a bewitching alternative galaxy of delights.
  2. Slant Magazine
    80
    Bat for Lashes' music feels like some lost specter that has fortuitously wandered into your home and can't help but haunt you.
  3. Under The Radar
    80
    Despite her ear for meditative melodies, however, her most complex arrangements are usually her best. [Summer 2007, p.72]
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  4. Drowned In Sound
    80
    An entrancing, wonderfully surprising record which manages to feel both refreshing new and strangely timeless.

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  1. Positive: 16 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 19
  3. Negative: 2 out of 19
  1. iamtrent424
    10
    Bat for lashes is an amazing artist i'm glad somebody found her and signed her. This is one of my favorite album. Great song writing skills and amazing vocals. Her songs tell story. Bat for lashes is different for all the other artist. Art Rock and Indie Rock artist. The songs has a good feeling to it. Bat for lashes music is just wonderful. One of the best song writers. The sound is great. It not too low or too high. THe artwork for the album is really good. Fur and Gold . Every song are great on the album. This album does has some really sad songs like Sad eyes. This song is really sad. It start off sad but it also has some upbeat songs like priscilla. This song make me wanna get up and start clapping my hands. The album has some songs that has an upbeat sound and kind of sad and make you feel happy like Seal Jubilee. One of the best album out. On my list for greatest album of all time.… Expand
  2. Ricko
    8
    A great album - well worth it's mercury music prize nomination. Original and inventive but at the same time extermely listenable. A much better version of Florence and the Machine.… Expand
  3. Time
    7
    I don't understand the comparisons to Kate Bush. I guess because this band features a British woman that's what critic's automatically link her to. This is one of those Cat Power followers like Feist. It's not bad but please it's not Kate Bush.… Expand
  4. JCC.
    4
    Hugely overrated and ultimately very dull.

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