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‘Little Red’ (EP, self-released) • Ah, the sadly defunct Dartington College in the green wilds of South Devon: petri dish of many a radical, literate young artiste. Blend that with Bristol’s metropolitan edge, and an ancestry spread across the American Midwest, and you get Heg Doughty. This impressive four-tracker results from a research trip to Illinois, the singer-pianist capturing narrative fragments of family history that invite you to fill in the gaps. ‘The March’ might be about mass escape or political protest (“One hundred miles in six long days”), whilst ‘Downfalling’ tells of a homesick soldier in occupied France. The sparse piano-and-voice arrangements, augmented here and there by drums and bass, have the lucidity of spring water. Think Kurt Weill reincarnated as a girl standing on the Harbourside in a vintage dress. (Anna Britten)
Copyright Anna Britten 2011
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THE BIG GIG
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Gary Numan
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