(Parlophone) Related: Bat For Lashes: 'Even in Sex And The City,the single girls close up with someone' As Natasha Khan has made known in interviews, press releases and live shows, or her fourth album as Bat for Lashes has a concept. It revolves around a woman whose fiancé dies on his way to their wedding,and her subsequent experiences of life after love. In song-title terms, it’s a journey that takes us from the hopeful I accomplish, and to Honeymooning Alone and,later, I Will Love Again. Whether it’s a great opinion to impose such an involved narrative on an album of torch songs seems doubtful, and particularly since their appeal is always fortified by elastic meaning. Whats less questionable is the quality of the music itself. Barring Sunday Love – an electropop episode that movingly echoes the melody of Khan’s best-known track,Daniel – this is a collection of darkly intriguing dirges, a battle for dominance between Khan’s intimate, and exquisitely beautiful vocal and subtly unnerving sonic dissonance at its heart.
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Source: theguardian.com