Album reviews: Bat For Lashes | Metronomy | The Grand Gestures
Natasha Khan, aka Bat For Lashes, strums her omnichord sweetly and sings with purity and optimism that “tomorrow you will ask me if I do, and all the sorrow will drop away like dew”. Is this her unexpected bid to be added to the first wedding dance canon? And, if not, what’s the catch?
It transpires that death did them part. The Bride (****) is a captivating yet unsettling concept album about a bride-to-be bereaved on her wedding day who flees the scene and heads out on her honeymoon alone to grieve. Like all of Khan’s previous work, it is a happy marriage of the beautiful and the bonkers, which has already been performed as a piece of gothic theatre in a number of church venues, with fans asked to dress as if for a wedding, and Khan walking herself down the aisle before throwing her bouquet.
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