Felt like picking an obscure number.
In any case, number seven would have to be ...
Bat For Lashes - "Daniel" from Two Suns (2009; Astralwerks)
Seriously, it's a song about The Karate Kid and it's got a Peter-Gabriel-meets-Stevie-Nicks thing. It also has Natasha Khan's soaring backdraft vocals, appropriately pretty Goth atmospherics and a thumping beat that can be bumped in the club or in the living room. It took her a while, but Tash stopped trying to be a smokey-voiced Siouxsie and excelled and being her lovely self, with "Sleep Alone" and "Pearl's Dream" not far behind in the gems her Two Suns offers. "Daniel" is the foxiest hippie-Darkling treat this year, despite itself.
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