TIP OF THE TONGUE 02 DECEMBER 2007
Heather Leigh Murray
Devil If You Can Hear Me
Not Not Fun NNF-092
LP
OUT OF STOCK!
Brand new solo LP from Heather Leigh Murray represents a wild body swerve from the arc of her career to date, with three vocal/pedal steel songs that flit between mainlined avant boogie that tips the finger to both John Lee Hooker and Keiji Haino circa Black Blues, lyrics that have that same street-tough hip/flip style of Alan Vega and the kind of explosive, iconoclastic melodies that Don and Albert Ayler used to bring down the kingdom. The guitar playing is massively inventive, picking out hypnotic tone-implosions with the most tactile use of illuminating electricity before dropping down into endless slipstreams of choral constructs and vocal/harmonica jams that would marry Dylan '66 with Kaoru Abe and Alan 'Blind Owl' Wilson. It sounds nothing like what any else is doing right now. Comes in a glorious private press-style sleeve with a sun-struck cover and some hermetic line-drawings on the back. Highest possible recommendation.
