QUIRKY and chaotic, you could well imagine some of these tracks appearing on the soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange. Some four years in the offing, Newcastle’s Beth Jeans Houghton finally unleashes an album to attach to the gentle buzz which has long surrounded her name.
Stand-out tracks are Dodecahedron - as intriguingly multi-faceted as its name suggests - and closer Carousel, while the relatively restrained Veins and The Barely Skinny Bone Tree, in particular, reward repeat listens. Kate Bush comparisons come naturally, if lazily, for Houghton’s sound is defiantly her own, to the point of insisting on the album being virtually complete before a record label could have any input. There are apparently already two more where it came from as well, which promise to be equally wild and wonderful.
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