Imagine a young Julie Christie cooing breathily to electro-harpsichord over the bass-and-tambourines backbeat from "Be My Baby" by The Ronettes, and you have something like "What's a Girl to Do" from the (generally irresistible) album "Fur and Gold," by the Brighton-based band Bat for Lashes.

Frontwoman Natasha Khan quit her gig as a nursery school teacher to put her noodlings and influences (which include Steve Reich) down on paper, and it paid off: The Anglo-Pakistani Khan made waves with her moody, hybrid sound at June's Glastonbury Festival. Give her a listen.