So the Cure are getting yet another tribute album this October. Perfect as Cats: A Tribute to the Cure drops on Oct. 28th from Manimal Vinyl. The album is a double-disc with 32 tracks of cover-y-goodness. Why do we care?

3 words: Bat for Lashes. AKA one of the UK’s most stirring current musical minds, Natasha Khan. Hot on the heels of her Radiohead support slot, she offers her take on the Cure’s “A Forest,” the only single (and their first charting one) off their 1980 album Seventeen Seconds.

Listen to and download the cover here, and head after the jump to check out the rest of the 2-disc track listing and roster including Dandy Warhols, Indian Jewelry, the Muslims and many more.

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MP3: Bat for Lashes – A Forest (The Cure Cover)

Perfect as Cats: A Tribute To The Cure
(Manimal Vinyl)
Street date: Oct. 28, 2008

disc 1

Xu Xu Fang “Fascination Street”
Bat For Lashes “A Forest”
Hecuba “Killing An Arab”
Astrid Quay (of Winter Flowers) “The Caterpillar”
Indian Jewelry “The Walk”
Rainbow Arabia “Six Different Ways”
We Are The World “Why Can’t I Be You?”
blackblack “In Between Days”
Rio en Medio “Pictures of You”
Gangi “Fire In Cairo”
Joker’s Daughter “Kyoto Song”
Aquaserge with Laure Briard “10.15 Saturday Night” (in French)
The Muslims “Grinding Halt”
Voyager One “M”
Ex-Reverie “The Hanging Garden”
Caroline Weeks (of Bat For Lashes) “The Drowning Man”
Devastations “All Cats Are Gray”

Disc 2

The Dandy Warhols “Primary”
Veil Veil Vanish “The Upstairs Room”
Wolkfin (ex-Junior Senior) “Charlotte Sometimes”
Army Navy “Jumping Someone Else’s Train”
Ich Bin Aiko “A Strange Day”
Lemon Sun “The Exploding Boy”
Corridor “The Kiss”
Katrine Ottosen (CALLmeKAT) “The Love Cats”
Silver Summit “A Night Like This”
Mariee Sioux “Love Song”
Kaki King “Close To Me”
Buddy “Sugar Girl”
Les Bicyclettes Blanches “Hot Hot Hot!”
Tara Busch “Let’s Go To Bed”
Jesu “The Funeral Party”
Sarabeth Tucek “Three Imaginary Boys”
Lewis & Clarke “Disintegration”

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