Editor’s Note: The Albumism staff has selected what we believe to be the 110 Best Albums of the 2010s, representing a varied cross-section of artists, genres, and styles. Click “Next Album” below to explore each album in the list or for easier navigation, view the full introduction & album index here.

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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