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Metacritic	79/100
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Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose is the debut studio album by Beth Jeans Houghton recorded with the Hooves of Destiny and released in the United Kingdom on 6 February 2012 (on 28 February 2012 in the United States), by Mute Records. The album was produced by Ben Hillier, noted for his works with Blur, Elbow and Depeche Mode, among many others.

"Liliputt" (b/w "Your Holes") was released as the album's lead single on 14 November 2011. It was followed by "Sweet Tooth Bird" (b/w "Telephone") on 20 February 2012, the song about sabotaging a relationship that's too good." On 23 April (with a special Record Store Day release on the 21st) came out the third single "Atlas", accompanied by black-and-white video directed and produced by Beth Houghton's friend Juan Iglesias in Los Angeles.

Upon its release, Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose received generally favourable reviews. Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, reports an average score of 79, based on 17 reviews.

"Her debut album has been a long time coming, but the two-year wait has yielded an end product that's been caringly crafted well beyond what you'll hear on most first albums," wrote Alex Young of Consequence of Sound, describing the album's psychedelic folk as "an alluring, heady trip, at times recalling a Court and Spark-era Joni Mitchell with shades of David Bowie's Hunky Dory lurking in the wings."

"While Houghton's debut Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose has just as much whimsy as the title suggests, it's not all spun-sugar fantasies (though there are plenty of those). Her voice has a richness and maturity that anchor her flights of fancy, while the carnival-chamber-folk that surrounds it adds freshness and fun," according to Allmusic. "Just over 30 minutes long, it shows that Houghton knows how to leave listeners wanting more," concluded Heather Phares her 4/5 rating review.

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