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“ Wild Wolf Woman is a style we do particularly well in the UK, though of course we see it elsewhere, too. I think particularly of Björk, as well as Dory Previn, Laura Nyro, Joanna Newsom. Crucially, these artists display an eccentricity that seems inherent rather than worn, in the manner of Lady Gaga, whose attempts at the avant garde make me think of the Henry Brooks Adams line: “The American mind exasperated the European as a buzz-saw might exasperate a pine forest.