"Perfect as Cats" on Manimal Vinyl in late 2008.

Khan's second album, "Two Suns", was released in April 2009 and produced by Khan and David Kosten. In preparation for the album, Khan journeyed to the Joshua Tree Desert in California to gain inspiration, before returning to New York and London to write and record the finished material for release.

A concept album, "Two Suns" focuses on Khan's desert-born alter ego Pearl, whose personality she adopted while staying in New York to gain a better understanding of the character. She revealed to the BBC's "Newsbeat", "I really just did it as an experiment of dressing up myself with quite garish extreme feminine make-up. I wanted to photograph myself in that situation and just see what it made me feel." Khan believed that living in Brooklyn when bands such as TV on the Radio, MGMT and Gang Gang Dance were emerging on the music scene had an influence on the album's musical style. In an interview with MTV she said, "I experienced that whole thing coming out, in terms of beats and like going out dancing and checking out all this new music it was really inspiring." During the album's production, she also collaborated with Brooklyn band Yeasayer for the bass and beat programming. In June 2009, Bat for Lashes first appeared on the cover of The Fader, in its 60th issue.

"Two Suns" debuted at number five on the UK Albums Chart, and has been certified gold by the BPI for sales of 100,000 copies. The first single from the album, "Daniel", became Khan's first hit, peaking at number thirty-six on the UK Singles Chart; it later won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song and was nominated for the MTV Video Music Award for Breakthrough Video of the Year. The following singles were "Pearl's Dream" and a double A-side of "Sleep Alone" and "Moon and Moon", the latter of which was featured in a high-profile advertising campaign for children's charity Barnardo's in late 2009.
Critical response to the album was generally favourable, generating a score of 77 on the review aggregator Metacritic. In their review for "Two Suns", "NME" awarded it 8 out of 10 describing the album as "epic in scope and ambition and requires a similarly epic patience to unravel its charms." "Rolling Stone" also rated it favourably, stating "Khan proves she's a powerhouse under her billowy sleeves. She could be the next Kate Bush." However some critics such as Popmatters found problems: reviewing the album, they wrote, "While the weaker songs are definitely not throwaways, they miss the mark in more than one way." "Blender" magazine also felt the album was average, awarding it 3 out 5 stars, saying "The contrast between Pearl and Natasha isn't always crisply drawn". As with "Fur and Gold", Khan was nominated for the Mercury Prize for "Two Suns". In 2010, she won Best Alternative Act at the UK Asian Music Awards and received a second BRIT Award nomination for British Female Solo Artist.

As part of the 2009 summer festival season, Khan played at Glastonbury, Somerset House and the iTunes Festival. In September 2009, a special edition of "Two Suns" was released in the United Kingdom ahead of Khan's October tour. The special edition, which included a cover version of Kings of Leon's single "Use Somebody", was released simultaneously in the United States. Later in 2009, the cover artwork for "Two Suns" was nominated for Best Art Vinyl.

In early 2010, Khan toured South America supporting Coldplay after a gig at The De La Warr Pavilion including covers of Radiohead's "All I Need" and The Cure's "Lullaby". In 2010, she collaborated with Beck on the track "Let's Get Lost" for the , and contributed the song "Sleep Alone" from "Two Suns" to the Enough Project and Downtown Records' "Raise Hope for Congo" compilation. Proceeds from the compilation funded efforts to make the protection and empowerment of Congo's women a priority, as well as inspire individuals around the world to raise their voice for peace in Congo.

For Record Store Day 2010, Bat for Lashes released an exclusive double A-side 7" single comprising a live performance of "Trophy" single B-side "Howl" recorded at De La Warr Pavilion, and a cover of Wild Is the Wind, originally written by Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington. In 2011, Khan recorded a cover version of Depeche Mode's song "Strangelove" for a Gucci advertising campaign. The song was released as a free download from Gucci's channel on YouTube and various blogs. In June 2011, Khan performed two shows at the Sydney Opera House as part of the Vivid LIVE Arts Festival, her only performances of the year.

The third Bat for Lashes album, "The Haunted Man", was released in October 2012 in the UK. The lead single, "Laura", was released in July; the second single, "All Your Gold", was released in September. "The Haunted Man" debuted at number six on the UK Albums Chart, Khan's second consecutive top ten album, and has since been certified silver by the BPI for selling 60,000 copies. Subsequent singles were "A Wall" and "Lilies". Khan attended the 2013 Brit Awards having been nominated in the Best British Female category, and was also nominated at the Ivor Novello Awards in the category of Best Song Musically and Lyrically (for "Laura").

In 2013, Khan performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, supported Blur at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Ireland, and opened for Depeche Mode on the first half of their North American tour. In June, she released a cover of "The Bride", a pre-revolution Iranian song, with the rock band Toy. On 2 September 2013, Khan premiered the track "Garden's Heart", a collaboration with Jon Hopkins for the soundtrack to the film "How I Live Now".

In 2014, Khan collaborated with Damon Albarn on a track for his 2014 solo album "Everyday Robots," premiered "Skin Song" from "Body of Songs"—a compilation album featuring songs inspired by anatomy and medical science—and contributed a cover of "Plan the Escape" by Son Lux to of the film "".

On 15 August 2015, Khan began teasing new music on her Twitter and Instagram pages via a game of Hangman. During a surprise Green Man Festival set in Wales on 22 August, she debuted a music project with producer Dan Carey and the band Toy, called Sexwitch. Two days later, it was announced that Sexwitch's eponymous debut album would be released on 25 September 2015 by Echo and BMG, consisting of six covers of 1970s psychedelic and folk songs from different parts of the world.

On 19 February 2016, a new song, "I Do", was released YouTube, with a picture of a wedding invitation reading "Save The Date 1st July 2016". The track was made available for purchase the same day. On 11 March, Khan released "In God's House", the lead single from her fourth studio album, "The Bride", which was released on 1 July.

Khan is a soprano. Critics have likened Khan's music to the work of Siouxsie Sioux, Björk, Kate Bush, Cat Power, PJ Harvey, Annie Lennox, Tori Amos and Fiona Apple. Her music has been described by MTV Iggy as "at once haunting and way danceable".

Khan and fashion house YMC designed a limited edition capsule collection of sportswear and accessories for the spring/summer 2014 season. The release of the collection was accompanied by a fashion film, "Under the Indigo Moon", directed by and starring Khan herself including a soundtrack she composed with Beck.

In 2014, Film4 commissioned Cowboy Films to produce the short film "Gotcha", which Khan will write and direct. She said she intends to develop the project into a feature-length film.






Köln okul katliamı

Köln okul katliamı, 11 Haziran 1964'te, Almanya'nın Köln kentinin Volkhoven banliyösünde yer alan bir Katolik ilkokulunda gerçekleşen saldırıdır. Fail Walter Seifert, kendi yaptığı alev makinesiyle okula saldırdı ve makinenin yakıcı sıvısı bitince yine kendi el yapımı olan mızrakla kaçmaya çalışanlara saldırdı. Kaçışı sırasında polislerden birisinin kalçasından vurmasıyla yakalandı. Ateşler içinde yakalanan saldırgan hastaneye kaldırıldı ve saat 20.30'da E-605'ten zehirlenerek öldü.

Olay, günümüzde 1. sınıf ile 8. sınıf arasındaki eğitim kurumlarına denk gelen Katolik okulda gerçekleşti. Fail Walter Seifert, 9.30'da üzerinde mavi bir işçi tulumu, sırtında böcek ilaçlama aletiyle okula girdi. Girdiği kapının kilidi bozuktu ve Seifert, kapının altına bir tahta sıkıştırarak bahçedeki jimnastik öğretmeni Bayan Langohr'a yürüdü ve böcek ilaçlama aletini açtı. Aletten çıkan kullanılmış motor yağı ve boya inceltici karışım sıcak metal ağa temas edince alev aldı. Fail, panikleyip kaçmaya çalışan jimnastikçilere arkasını dönüp kapıya en yakın kısma gitti. Kendi yapımı sapanla sınıfın camını kırdı ve boyu altı metreyi bulan alevleri sınıfa yönlendirdi. Can havliyle pencereden atlayan çocuklara, elindeki alev makinesini ayrıca yönlendirdi. 

Püskürtücünün yanıcı maddesi bittiğinde fail, boş tüpü ve makineyi okul bahçesine fırlattı. Kendi yapımı mızrağıyla üzerine doğru koşan bir kadın öğretmeni karnından vurarak öldürdü. Diğer sınıftaki iki kadın öğretmen kapıyı tutuyordu ama fail, tek tekmeyle kapıyı kırdı ve içeri girdi. Bu esnada okul avlusuna düşen bir kadın öğretmenin kalçasından iki mızrak darbesiyle yaraladıktan sonra sırtına indirdiği bir diğer darbeyle öldürdü. 

Altına tahta koyarak sıkıştırdığı kapının öğrenciler tarafından açıldığını bilmediğinden avlunun diğer tarafına koşarak okulun etrafındaki çiti aştı ve demiryolu tarafına doğru kaçtı. İki telsizli polis, Seifert'in arkasından koşmaya başladı ve uzaklaşamadan yakaladılar. Seiferd, yakalandığında mızrağıyla kendisini savunmaya kalksa da polislerden birisinin kalçasından vurmasıyla savunmasını devam ettiremedi. 

Demiryolunda yanlarına gelen acil doktoru, faili hastaneye gönderse de durumu orada iyice ağırlaştı. Ateş püskürtücünün yanında zamanında yaygın kullanılan bitki koruyucu bir zehir olan E-605 şişesi bulunmuştu. 20.30'da bu kimyasalın yol açtığı zehirlenmeden öldü. 

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