“What's A Girl To Do?” by Bat For Lashes

"What's a Girl to Do?" comes from Fur and Gold, the 2006 debut album from Bat for Lashes, and Natasha Khan wrote it alone, words and music. The record was cut in London and Brighton in a single month, with Khan co-producing alongside David Kosten, who was pleasantly startled by how ready she was: pages of notes, with every song tied to lines from films, sounds, images, scraps of poetry and drawings.

It became one of the album's singles, and in 2008 it got a second life as a 12-inch carrying a remix with Scroobius Pip and Plaid. The album itself, first issued on The Echo Label and reissued through Parlophone in 2007, picked up a Mercury Prize nomination.

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