Fur and Gold cover

Fur and Gold

Released

One has to wonder sometimes why Natasha Khan isn’t a megastar. Certainly on her debut album, she presented everything needed to reach big audiences – the mixture of English psychedelic folk and indie rock was perfectly fused, and put into the service of her hypnotically characterful voice. Indeed the exact same formula, just louder and brasher, would lead to huge commercial success for Florence And The Machine very shortly after this. But maybe Khan was just too interesting to do the obvious – she would, after all, later go on to record covers of Thai psyche rock tracks and roleplay as an 80s teen movie vampire. But that’s beside the point. In her first step into the limelight she was working real magic, and the sounds here remain intensely affecting, especially when she brings Phil Spector vibes (on “I Saw a Light” and “What’s a Girl to Do”) and gothic mansion piano (“I’m on Fire”) into the mix. 

Joe Muggs

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