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Du Blonde: Sniff More Gritty review – a gleefully self-sufficient affair
The Newcastle musician’s freewheeling, hook-heavy new album is a worthy follow-up to the one-woman wigout of Homecoming
frontwoman Laura Jane Grace) might primarily be an ode to enjoying your own excellent company, but it also acts as a neat insight into its author, Newcastle’s Beth Jeans Houghton. Continuing along the resolutely DIY path of acclaimed third album Homecoming(2021), Sniff More Gritty is almost entirely performed, produced and engineered by Houghton, save for a few drum parts. A pair of tracks – the bratty middle finger of TV Star and Next Big Thing (featuring Skunk Anansie’s Skin) – pour disdain on a series of unsavoury characters, the former awash with cocaine and disappointment, the latter a damning report from inside the industry (“He only touched you a few times/ So why does it bother you?”).
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