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01. Heather Leigh - Prelude To Goddess
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02. Heather Leigh - Lena
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03. Heather Leigh - Scorpio and Androzani
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04. Heather Leigh - Soft Seasons
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05. Heather Leigh - Gold Teeth
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06. Heather Leigh - Days Without You
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ARTIST
LEIGH, HEATHER
TITLE
Throne
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
EDITIONS MEGO
CATALOG #
EMEGO 257CD
EMEGO 257CD
GENRE
EXPERIMENTAL
RELEASE DATE
11/2/2018
On
Throne
,
Heather Leigh
takes her place as queen of pedal steel with a suite of heart-rending ballads cauterized with burning riffs. After the rawness of its precursor
I Abused Animal
(SOMA 023LP, 2015),
Throne
is a record of late night Americana and heavy femininity; intimate love songs smoked in sensuality. The songs on
Throne
are woozy, gorgeous and uncomfortable, smothered in thick layers of bass but lifted by multi-tracked vocals. These are rich song forms that stand in contrast to the stripped down steel in her duo with
Peter Brotzmann
. "Prelude To Goddess" sashays in wearing leopard-print jeans under the twinkling fluorescent illuminations of the British seaside, like Brighton Rock with extra bass. It is followed in by "Lena" -arguably Leigh's "Jolene" - a perverse love song soaked in a subversive sexuality, weighed down with a heavy pulse. "Soft Seasons" is anchored with sunken beats shrouded in wailing, growling steel and an earwormy melody. "Gold Teeth", the longest track on the record, crests and breaks in waves; ecstatic peaks balanced and echoed by melancholic troughs. It soars on an updraft, and from cosmic heights dives seaward into a gnarly and riotous pedal steel breakdown, before catching the breeze again. "Days Without You" and "Scorpio & Androzani" are shorter, intimate songs; in the latter the synths seethe and the steel bows and bends as Leigh's voice falters above a Greek chorus of shadows and reflections. But this isn't autobiography, and
Throne
departs on "Days Without You", a confrontationally unfinished romantic song, anxious with half-thoughts and missed connections. It glides into the night on stilettos leaving unanswered questions, in a fugue of psychic disturbance and lovesick sensuality. Leigh's artwork (which she photographed and designed) is a visual mirror of the songs on
Throne
. It is an album of cosmic echoes, abstractions and introspection, of characters and stories that make up Leigh's first best pop record, its melodies and hooks set alight with the fiery core of her unique and distinctive pedal steel. Additional instrumentation by
John Hannon
(violin, synthesizer) and
David Keenan
(electric bass). Recorded and engineered by John Hannon, Rayleigh, Essex, March 2018. Photographs and design: Heather Leigh.
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