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BAT FOR LASHES | The Bride
Echo/Parlophone/Warner Bros. (2016)
Selected by Justin Chadwick

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The follow-up to 2012’s The Haunted Man, The Bride is a sonically inventive, lyrically poignant concept album centered around the tragic yet redemptive narrative of a bride whose fiancé unexpectedly dies on their wedding day. Moreover, The Bride—coupled with Natasha Khan’s latest offering Lost Girls (2019)—offers unequivocal evidence that five albums in to her still ascendant recording career, she is curating a remarkably strong discography indeed, one that continues to surprise, provoke and enthrall.

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