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'No Help Coming' is the fourth full-length release by Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs, and the latest of nearly 30 albums on which the veteran indie icon is featured. But she's quick to dismiss any suggestion that she's refined her approach during her 20 years as a recording artist.

'I'm proud to say that I don t think there's been much development at all, really,' she asserts. 'I still only know the same chords I did when I was 14, and I
still write songs about the same things. But I did get a tuner three years ago, which was monumental.'

Indeed, as much as her work has evolved over the years, the London-born, Georgia-based singer/guitarist has maintained a fierce fidelity to the same raw DIY musical principles that first established her as a seminal influence upon multiple generations of garage combos and lo-fi artists. Her current outfit,
Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs, is a stripped-down duo that teams her with Texas-bred multi-instrumentalist and longtime collaborator Lawyer Dave, who
contributes guitar, drums and backing vocals.

The new 12-song set, recorded in the twosome s adopted home state of Georgia, features such notable originals as 'The Rest of Your Life,' 'You re Under
Arrest' 'Get Out of My House' and the swaggering title track, which packs as much of a musical and emotional punch as anything they've recorded. No Help
Coming also continues Golightly's longstanding tradition of putting her stamp on unexpected cover material, with personalized readings of country legend Bill Anderson's 'The Lord Knows We re Drinking,' the mysterious Mr. Undertaker s 1955 rhythm-and-blues cult classic 'Here Lies My Love,' and Wendell Austin's vintage psycho-country epic 'L.S.D. Made a Wreck of Me.' The last tune features an appropriately impassioned lead vocal by Lawyer Dave.

Now, No Help Coming adds a compelling new chapter to Holly Golightly's massively influential body of work. 'I think I'm still doing exactly what I've always done, in that I've managed to keep making music I like,' she observes. 'Perhaps some people don t stick at it for as long because they didn't really like what they were doing in the first place. I think the trick is to just do what you like, and not aim to use every switch in the studio just because it s there.'