Beth Jeans Houghton sounds like she's singing 'I love the smell' on this EP which is ironic - Ant just had to run out of the room because Brian let out a terrible, terrible emission leading to calls from Phil for him to be sent to hospital. It might be the first time this summer that I've been glad to have hay fever. This EP is vastly more pleasant than that I'm glad to say, it's all very quiet and whimsical, almost choral at times, with pretty things like harps and cherubs and soft-focus and cotton wool and that. Honestly, it's really really NICE. I don't mean 'damning with faint praise' nice but genuinely, properly pleasant and stuff. Ant quite rightly says that the first one sounds like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, how can you complain about that? Plus it's produced by a guy called Booger Red, like a big bloody bogey! Ah.. This might be the most low-brow review I've written in literally hours.
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What their label says...
With an unconventional mix of popular influences ranging from Frank
Zappa, Vashti Bunyan and Love, Beth has cultivated a haunting sound
that is distinctively personal and unique. Since her debut live
performance in August 2006 Beth Jeans Houghton has shared the backline
with an impressive array of artists such as Devendra Barnhart,
Josephine Foster, PG Six, Dead Meadow, Voice Of The Seven Woods and
Diane Cluck. She will be appearing alongside her old and new ladylike luminaries on the ‘Bearded Ladies Vol. II’ compilation this summer.
