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Songs We Love: Tei Shi, 'Say You Do'

Tei Shi's red thigh-highs weren't a deliberate reference to Britney Spears' iconic jumpsuit but, she admits, it may have been a subconscious one.
Tei Shi's <em>Crawl Space</em> is out now.

The title of Tei Shi's debut album, , is an ode to the shadowy room she used as a child to overcome her fear of the dark. Recording her first album stirred up similar feelings of dread. "Suddenly, I was six again," she tells NPR. To summon

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