Du BlondeBest Du Blonde Albums Ranked

Homecoming

loudandquiet

9.0

“It was once written, by a heavily bearded, salt-encrusted American writer, “Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul…then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.” I knew what he meant, minus the fact that I’ve never been on an international oceanic voyage. But, I do feel as though I now know exactly what he meant, becau”

Welcome Back To Milk

thelineofbestfit

8.5

“What's in a name? Beth Jeans Houghton returns as Du Blonde”

Homecoming

nme

8.0

“It makes sense that Du Blonde’s third album was written on a guitar given to her by Curb Your Enthusiasm actor Jeff Garlin. It’s a record laced with a sardonic sense of humour – check out the pounding ‘Smoking Me Out’, on which a warped, Evil Dead­-style voice gleefully declares of a lover: “Together we make one sordid burger of human meat!” – and one whose author seems to revel in the joyful anar”

Lung Bread for Daddy

nme

8.0

“It’s been four years since Newcastle’s Beth Jeans Houghton became Du Blonde for acclaimed second album ‘Welcome Back To Milk’, emerging as a glammed-up, fire-breathing garage rock star. In the interim, she’s been painting, made videos for Ezra Furman and Red Hot Chili Peppers, worked on a novel, released a comic book and battled the loneliness and anxiety. ‘Lung Bread For Daddy’ is as much a nake”

Lung Bread for Daddy

thelineofbestfit

8.0

“Du Blonde's new album is a brutal triumph”

Lung Bread for Daddy

pitchfork

7.6

“Beth Jeans Houghton’s second album as Du Blonde sorts through the messiest aspects of desire and revulsion with cathartic finesse, purging her past while leaving her strange, spiky magic intact.”