David Thomas Broughton: the singer who serenades sausages

A new documentary celebrates a true alt-folk underdog who dodges fame, and duets with foodstuffsDavid Thomas Broughton will do anything to avoid playing a song straight. He duets with rape alarms and jams with trains. He’s looped a heckle into a musical refrain, deputised singing duties to vegetables, and been barred reentry to his own gig after leaving the stage to bang some pipes. His songs are intimate alt-folk ballads about soul-ache on a shoestring, his voice like Anohni’s hig...

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