The Fat Angel Sings

Bat For Lashes came back in July with their fourth album The Bride, The ‘band’ is of course Natasha Khan and the new record sounds promising; a concept album that follows the story of a woman whose fiancé has been killed in a crash on the way to the church for their wedding. In the narrative ‘The Bride’ flees the scene to take the honeymoon trip alone, resulting in  we are told  “a dark meditation on love, loss, grief, and celebration”. You can hear In God’s House from the album, it is probably one of my favourite ‘new’ albums of the last few years. So if you’re not familiar with their music, it’s worth checking out.

The Bride was released on Parlophone Records on 1 July 2016.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRBu6uZa5Hk

Last July, Bat For Lashes released the album The Bride, sensing / anticipating the tragedy about to come Dear Natasha, this album is a conceptual masterpiece. One of my favourites ever. It was a concept album written from the perspective of a woman whose fiancé dies in a car crash on the way to their wedding, and today, the British chanteuse has shared the video for the devastating ballad “Joe’s Dream.” The clip sees Natasha Khan strumming on an electric guitar in front of a church pulpit, while lights grow dim around her as she sings of the tragedy to come (“But what does it mean/The bad things that I’ve seen?”).