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Bat for Lashes: "She's not wicked, nor kooky. And don't tell her she's like Tori Amos…"

Chris Campion, Observer Music Monthly, 6 September 2009

NATASHA KHAN does not feel herself. She is standing in the living room of a cramped Brooklyn apartment on a frosty January morning. If first impressions count, then the 29-year-old performer is not sure that she is making the right one. She is wearing a blond bob wig and scarlet lipstick. She is feeling the discomfort of strangers seeing her in a mode that up until now has been reserved only for intimates. 

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