Talking With: Bat For Lashes On The Bride As A Journey Through Grief
When Natasha Khan set out to write The Bride, Bat for Lashes’ fourth studio album, today on Parlophone, she scribbled down 12 song titles as an outline, as if she were writing a novel. The story had been swirling around in her head for a while: the bride, overwhelmingly in love with her fiancé Joe, discovers he was killed in a car crash while she’s waiting in the church. Devastated, and boiling over with anger, she escapes the wedding and squeals off in her getaway vehicle to take their honeymoon alone. As for the rest of it, Khan had to keep writing to find out what would happen next.