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Before she began her first song last night, Bat For Lashes started hitting this wind chime-type thing and the lights went dim. At that point, I thought I was in for some freaky-deaky, over the top show where everyone, the band included, would be super uptight.

Fortunately, I was totally wrong. Perhaps what I loved best about Bat For Lashes was her refusal to hide behind any of the cliches she could easily play into (freak folk songstress from the UK, "the next Feist", critically acclaimed weirdo ala Bjork, etc). Watching her perform live, you do get a true performance, but it's one based on the music and the mood, nothing more and certainly nothing less. There's something really cool about how she arranges her songs. They sound like they were either recorded with a symphony or in her bedroom with a beatbox. Either way, I think she has the makings of a star. And by that I mean a real artist that real people could like.