Bat For Lashes

In a world where your scene can sell your music better than your music, Khan is an outsider. I don’t know exactly what I was looking for before I listened to her music but, when I did, I knew I found it. “Although the UK is currently a-buzz with new, innovative female acts like Little Boots, Micachu and Florence & The Machine, Khan has always existed in her own separate world. Once in Brooklyn she found herself at home amongst Gang Gang Dance, TV On The Radio and MGMT. “ (Fader Magazine) Her father was a devout Muslim and she attended Christian schools when she was younger. I do not think that it was a coincidence that she uses the name “Daniel” as the name for her new single. In the Old Testament, Daniel had many prophetic visions as well as many apocalyptic ones. He is an important figure to both Christians and Jews. All in all, I think Khan is ILL!! Not sick… Here’s a brief story Khan shared with Fader Magazine.

“I was walking along the shore, crying because I was having a really bad day, singing to myself and feeling emotional,” she recalls. “The sun was setting and a school of nine dolphins came swimming by. My girlfriends were like, Tasha! Oh my god! It’s your spirit animal! I needed to reach out to some kind of objectivity, some universal cosmic something. You can just drown in the vortex, but when they came, it snapped me out. To see the beauty of being, they’re so free and wild.” Khan says that this actually happened twice, although the second time, her presence only brought three dolphins to the shore. (Fader Magazine)