Heather Leigh Murray – Devil If You Can Hear Me LP
NNF092
Heather Leigh’s set at last year’s Colour Out Of Space festival in Brighton, UK was everything music should be: personal, deranged, profound, loud. Her song mode meshes astral-traveling electric pedal-steel guitar with a wasted sense of Western expanse and a lyrical, drugged vocal mood, and the results are weird and wonderful. Devil If You Can Hear Me, her debut full-length, spills across three varying arenas of psychedelic privacy, loaded with loaded statements, wild Charalambides-ish tunnel-digging, and an almost Jandek-ian jam-driven wanderlust. An intense, brave step forward/outside 2006’s phenomenal Jailhouse Rock CS on Fag Tapes and her string of solo CDRs on Volcanic Tongue. Black-vinyl LPs in matte jackets with a ‘Heather-in-sunlight’ cover photo plus some of her abstract/confessional drawings on the back. Edition of 500.