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Oct 11, 2018 By Christopher Roberts Beth Jeans Houghton

Du Blonde is the project of UK-based multi-instrumentalist Beth Jeans Houghton. She has announced a new album, Lung Bread For Daddy, and has shared a video for a new song from it, “Buddy.” Lung Bread For Daddy is due out February 22, 2019 via Moshi Moshi, her first for the label. Houghton self-directed the video for “Buddy,” which features her taking a bath filled with spaghetti. Watch it below, followed by the album’s tracklist and cover art.

The album is the follow-up to 2015’s Welcome Back to Milk and 2012’s Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose. The latter album was released under her given name and both came out via Mute.

Houghton oversaw every aspect of Lung Bread For Daddy. “I know exactly what I want my record to sound like and apart from drums, I have the ability to play all the instruments, so I did,” she says in a press release.

She even painted the album cover, a self-portrait taken from, as the press release describes it, “a photograph taken during one of her lowest points, the image depicts Beth devoid not only of makeup, but of self-worth and confidence.”

Houghton elaborates: “I look tired and pretty much destroyed, which is a feeling I’ve known many times over; in the aftermath of relationships and that of making a record. Lyrically the album is very naked, so I’m carrying on the nudity of my previous album covers, only this time it’s emotional instead of physical.”

A press release describes the album this way: “Veering wildly between proto-punk, psych rock and the wholesome songwriting of the 1970s, Lung Bread For Daddy takes the listener on a journey through the landscape of her past. It is an honest and often uncomfortable look into the life of a person whose experiences have been touched by a myriad of characters, homes across continents, periods of extreme loneliness, mental illness and a search for an understanding of personal identity.”

Houghton adds: “My lyrics are always autobiographical. I have to be able to identify with what I’m singing, and telling my story is therapeutic.”

Lung Bread For Daddy includes “Holiday Resort,” a song Du Blonde shared back in September. Check it out below as well.

Lung Bread For Daddy Tracklist:

1. Coffee Machine
2. Take Out Chicken
3. Peach Meat
4. Holiday Resort
5. Baby Talk
6. Angel
7. Buddy
8. Heaven Know
9. RBY
10. Acetone
11. Days Like These
12. On the Radio

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