It does its job, setting up the scene, but it feels pallid after her previous records, and stirs concerns that Khan’s storyline might be shortchanging her songcraft. The album’s opener, the idyllic “I Do,” is a bit of a red herring–its strummed harpsichord and simple melody harks back to Fur & Gold, Bat for Lashes’ debut album and first foray into the persona she's meticulously constructed over the rest of her career. Although The Bride is relatively more stripped down than what we’ve come to expect from Bat for Lashes, Khan has no trouble filling the space with her signature lofty soprano, which does all the dramatic work the storyline needs to feel real. 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. 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.
11 tracks including the single 'Daniel'.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. Bat for Lashes was asked to support Radiohead on their European tour last summer at the band's personal request, where she assembled a new live band to explore fresh musical forms, before heading out to New York and the Californian desert to write what has now become Two Suns. The album's blend of spooky childhood reveries and magical piano balladry caught the imagination of everyone and not just in the music world.
Natasha Khan's debut, Fur And Gold, was nominated for the 2007 Mercury Music Prize, and earned two Brit Award nominations for Best Breakthrough and Best Female in 2008.
With her dazzling 2009 sophomore album, Bat For Lashes is set to assume the mantle of the most dynamic and intriguing Pop performer in the UK.
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