Bat For Lashes returns with a conceptual but underwhelming new album.

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Bat for Lashes is the work of British singer/ songwriter, multi- instrumentalist and visual artist Natasha Khan.

The Bride is the fourth studio album by English singer-songwriter Natasha Khan, professionally known as Bat for Lashes. It was released on 1 July 2016 by Parlophone. The album was produced by Khan, with co-production from Ben Christophers, Simone Felice, David Baron, Dan Carey, Jacknife Lee and Matt "Aqualung" Hales.

Natasha Khan's latest album as Bat For Lashes is a richly theatrical concept album detailing the story of a woman left at the altar after the husband dies in a car crash on the way to the wedding. The Bride tells the story of a woman left at the altar-not because her fiancé skipped out on the occasion but because he died in a car crash on his way to the wedding. The eponymous Bride then finds herself alone and unmoored on her own honeymoon, grieving the loss of her true love and trying to find the strength to piece together the rest of her life. Written as a soundtrack to an imagined movie, it commits to Bat for Lashes’ previous flirtations with going full storybook while never sounding contrived or heavy-handed.

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Natasha Khan (born 25 October 1979), known professionally as Bat for Lashes, is an English singer, songwriter and t. She has released four studio albums, Fur and Gold (2006), Two Suns (2009), The Haunted Man (2012) and The Bride (2016), receiving Mercury Prize nominations for Fur and Gold, Two Suns and The Bride. Khan is also the vocalist for Sexwitch, a collaboration with the rock band Toy and producer Dan Carey.

Release date: 01 July 2016. And that’s really the key point about The Bride. We already know that this is Khan’s most richly realised record so far, with the concept stretching as far as newspaper cuttings and air fresheners coming with the deluxe LP, and with audience members at live shows being asked to dress as they would for a wedding. Crucially, though, this is also her most musically subtle and lyrically direct album to date

It's a bit disappointing because I know Bat for Lashes can write amazing songs when she wants to. Joe's Dream is stunningly beautiful, and Sunday Love is catchy as hell, but these standout tracks sort of feel misplaced amongst the others. I really wish she had kept the energy going throughout the entire album, and had focused more attention on making the music interesting (such as In God's House), rather than just repeating the same simple motifs over and over again, as she does on many of the slower songs.