If I could be anyone, I think I'd be Natasha Khan.

To me, Natasha Khan, AKA Bat for Lashes, is one of the most accessible people in music. A weird girl like me can really appreciate finding a girl who loves Kate Bush and Bjork (not to mention my girl-crush, PJ Harvey) because they made her feel good about being weird. I can totally dig. Oh Natasha, can't you see that's what you've done to me?

Fur and Gold came out very recently, but it's easily become one of my favorite albums ever. I never skip a track-- every song is just so well done, and the lyrics combined with the mystic instruments are like entering a fairy tale written for grown castaways. I've been taking piano lessons this summer and I think it might be because I want to be exactly like her. I wish she would adopt me as her little sister and teach me her amazing ways. I pretend her song "Sarah" is about me.

So, thanks to Erika (seriously, thank you), I found a really wonderful little gem today-- I normally don't look at Stereogum, but as I was downloading a song from her fall mix she just posted, I stumbled upon a beautiful cover of The Cure's classic "A Forest", and I'm falling in love with this lady all over again.

Best of all is that I think the players in this track are none other than Natasha's brand-new backing band The Blue Dreams! A preview for her next album, maybe?

*Sigh*, I love everything this woman does, so I'm sure that whatever she's got up her sleeve will be nothing short of fantastic.

Download: Bat for Lashes "A Forest"

Lady Leona Luck, be my best friend?

Lady Luck, super-awesome and affordable cult British jewelry line, has this adorable new county fair-esque line out called "Summer Fete"! It includes bomb new totes and t-shirts, not to mention a really cool new kind of the personalized necklaces/brooches she is known for (in county fair tradition, the award ribbon).The necklace pictured above is my personal favorite-- it's a tiny little glass of pink lemonade, and it's only 8 pounds! This is why Lady Luck is such a prize-- it's adorably innovative, and fortunately super-affordable, too.
There is way more where this came from at ladyluckrulesok.com!