Beth Jeans Houghton will return under the new banner Du Blonde with a successor to 2012’s ‘Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose‘.
As the change of name suggests, the LP is described being a significant departure from that record. “This is a new sound, a new project,” Houghton says. “Du Blonde is a new incarnation and one step closer to assuming my ultimate form. Having freed myself from the rusty and bloody shackles of Beth Jeans Houghton – both musically and spiritually – I felt it only right to step forth under a new name and let the rituals commence.”
She’ll make her bow as Du Blonde at the Roundhouse Studios in London as part of the Roundhouse Rising Festival on February 20th, and is also due in Newcastle upon Tyne for this year’s BBC 6Music Festival a couple of days later.
A trailer of the new album, featuring a snippet of its first single, is right here:
