یو بینک ہوم لون - گورنمنٹ مارک اپ سبسڈی اسکیم

Natasha Khan understands how, to many, The Bride, a 13-song concept album and her fourth under the alias Bat For Lashes, may seem, well, a bit depressing. After all, the UK-born singer's new LP tells the tale of its soon-to-be-wed protagonist whose fiancé is killed in a car crash moments before they are to marry. But Kahn, a multi-disciplinary artist who studied music and visual arts in college, and who since her 2006 debut, Fur and Gold, has used her outré music as a complimentary vehicle for immersive performance art, sees things a bit differently.

"PEOPLE LIKE TO FIXATE ON THE DARK OR THE LIGHT [IN LIFE], BUT I THINK THE MOST BEAUTIFUL IS THE CO-MINGLING OF THE TWO."

To her, The Bride is actually "the ultimate love story." The album, Khan explains, is "in the end about this beautiful gift this bride is given through this tragedy." Yes, in the singer's eyes, our fixation on the tragic nature of life rather than, say, embracing its nuance is the ultimate misstep. "People like to fixate on the dark or the light [in life]," Khan says, "but I think the most beautiful is the co-mingling of the two. Often when those two things meet there's an evolution of consciousness or a leap forward in your development as a human being."