Beth Jeans Houghton

A vibrantly creative musician, composer, animator, and video director, Beth Jeans Houghton is an artist whose work became more revealing as she became more autonomous. Under her given name, she mixed acoustic guitar with samples, keyboards, and glam rock for a version of anti-folk that was more fantastical than down to earth; on 2012's Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose, she grounded her flights of fancy with silvery vocals and empathetic songwriting. Houghton took her skill at immersing listeners in her world in a very different direction as Du Blonde, matching the heavy sounds of ...