After hearing nothing but positive reviews about Beth Jeans Houghton, I
went on a mad spree of looking for anything and everything, and I’m so
beyond stoked that I stumbled upon Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose.
Immediately different from a lot of music that I’ve been listening to
and discarding at the moment, it’s a breath of fresh indie music air.
Normally in the winter months releases tend to be gloomier, darker,
beachier, but in Beth Jeans Houghton’s case, she blends that into a new
genre now being called, “nu-folk”. Let me just say that throughout the
first couple of tracks on the album, I was convinced it was a
reincarnation of a younger Joni Mitchell blended with the quirkiness and
beauty of Annie Clark of St. Vincent. If that doesn’t hook you, maybe
the extraordinary amount of odd instruments that pop up throughout the
album would. No? Then most definitely the flow of genres from folk to
surf rock to straight indie rock will tempt you. If all of this doesn’t
make you want to listen to this album right away, I will be
flabbergasted. It has become another one of those albums that tend to
slip under the radar of most “indie” bloggers–in fact the only somewhat
review I could find was by Paste Magazine. It’s a shame when great music
and wonderful singer/songwriters like Beth Jeans Houghton seemed to get
pushed under the rug all because the new Radiohead album got a 9.7 on
Pitchfork (okay, just an example, but Radiohead could easily be switched
to Arcade Fire or Kanye West). This is the kind of album that should
make people want to discover more diverse indie music because the whole
album shakes up genres but without that disconnect that would be
expected. And in fact, it flows absolutely perfectly, and from violins
to the harpsichord this is an album that deserves all the love in the
world.
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Author: themostindietastic
Source: themostindietastic
Date: March 10, 2012
Original article: HERE
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