Heather Leigh takes her 'Throne' as queen of pedal steel with a suite of heartbleed ballads cauterised with burning riffs. After the rawness of its precursor 'I Abused Animal', '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 multitracked vocals. These are rich song forms that stand in contrast to the stripped down steel in her duo with Peter Brötzmann.