Blog: L.A. RECORD

BETH JEANS HOUGHTON & THE HOOVES OF DESTINY Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose Mute My L.A. RECORD compatriots cautioned me that Beth Jeans Houghton “doesn’t need our help” to get her album promoted. But perhaps YOU, fair reader, need encouragement to look past the U.K. gossip rags and Houghton’s Gaga-esque costumery, and really engage with this album’s songs. Do it! This carefully crafted yet free-soaring song assortment combines folk with pop as well as Nick Drake ever did, and pairs twee micro-orchestration with deceptively dark lyrics in a manner reminiscent of Love’s Forever Changes—hell, [...]