“It’s been four years since Newcastle’s Beth Jeans Houghton became Du Blonde for acclaimed second album ‘Welcome Back To Milk’, emerging as a glammed-up, fire-breathing garage rock star. In the interim, she’s been painting, made videos for Ezra Furman and Red Hot Chili Peppers, worked on a novel, released a comic book and battled the loneliness and anxiety. ‘Lung Bread For Daddy’ is as much a nake”
“Du Blonde's new album is a brutal triumph”
“Beth Jeans Houghton’s second album as Du Blonde sorts through the messiest aspects of desire and revulsion with cathartic finesse, purging her past while leaving her strange, spiky magic intact.”
“The cover art for ‘Lung Bread For Daddy’ is the final death knell in Beth Jean Houghton’s early persona. Emerging in 2008 as a twee psych-folkster, the Newcastle musician was a parody of femininity in false eyelashes and Dadaist body paint. The self-portrait on her third album sees her denuded of artifice, her face scrubbed clean of make-up and the hues designed to emphasise her tiredness. It’s as”
