Bat For Lashes – The Bride
Released July 1st, 2016
Bat For Lashes, AKA Natasha Khan, draws from her studies of film, visual art and fashion design to create a tangible world on The Bride. This fourth album, a concept album, plays out a slow style of storytelling that rewards the patient listener. Khan takes listeners on the journey of titular character, The Bride, whose fiancé, Joe, dies on the way to their wedding. To be sure the journey is achingly/appropriately sad as The Bride tells the story of a woman whose fiancé dies in a car crash on their way to their wedding. Overcome with grief, she leaves the church and goes on their honeymoon alone.
3.5 out of 5 stars
