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Bat For Lashes: Two Suns (Album Review)

Koolmuzone launched Natasha Khan (Bat For Lashes) earlier on 23rd Feb 09. We are glad to see her featured in today’s edition of Dawn Images

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Though Two Suns at times flirts playfully with more accessible melodies and structures (Travelling Woman), after multiple listens it’s obvious that it’s a consciously chosen direction rather than one arrived at after consideration of other things, namely commercialism.

By Asfandyar Khan

Natasha Khan aka Bat for Lashes’ second album was released early last month

Hailing from Brighton, England, Natasha Khan (who records under the moniker Bat For Lashes — a vehicle primarily hers despite contributions from various musicians) seems like she’s longing for a world filled with fairies and pixies, a world of mystery and outrageous colours where varying personalities are taken and shelved with the blink of an eye.

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Maryam Kizilbash: Zara Palat Kay (Albumpreview)

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By Asfandyar Khan

Maryam might not be the most versatile of vocalists, and that is ironically what works perfectly for her as a musician. She manages to attain what few acts in Pakistan are able to achieve: coherence. The album flows from the first song to last, and never sound jarring

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NFP’s Music Video Review: Shehzad’s ‘Qismet Apnay Haath Mein’

Comment: Radical clichés

by NFP

People come to this
Beyond the age of reason
People fed on famine
People on their knees,
People eat each other
People stand in line
Waiting for another war,
Waiting for my valentine
(Sisters of Mercy, Valentine)