Bat for Lashes five-star review – the Bride marries grief with hope on her big night

Union Chapel, LondonNatasha Khan’s voices flows from an easy, Karen Carpenterish warmth to a haunted falsetto as she debuts songs from her band’s ambitious fourth albumNatasha Khan, the creative spirit and tortured soul of Bat for Lashes, glides up the church aisle. Clad in a blood-red maxi dress, clasping a bouquet and with a black veil trailing down her back, she is the Bride, a tragic heroine at the heart of Bat for Lashes’ new direction, and the eponymous narrator of the...

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