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It all makes for an intriguing contrast with the way Khan presented herself on the previous Bat for Lashes albums. Gone are the horses, head-dresses, candles and hippy accessories, the stuff that could cause a passer-by to label her kooky, one of the most dispiriting adjectives in the English language. The dictionary definition is eccentric, which fits Khan just fine: if you encourage audiences at your gigs to howl in order to “shed their humanity” and are given to telling journalists that wearing a head-dress can “draw the attention of the gods to your consciousness”, you’re clearly not targeting that corner of the market that voted Aiden Grimshaw off The X Factor because they thought he was a bit too weird.

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