A fantastically dark and unsettling debut. Deceptively light on the ear at first, Polly’s curious mixture of the everyday and the fantastic carries a serrated knife-edge. The musical backdrops - odd piano loops, discreet guitars, flutters of synth and adeptly deployed electronic percussion frame songs in which you can’t get away from what Polly emotes. She has set a high-water mark for herself with this debut that she can and surely will surpass. The mind boggles - in a great way - as to exactly what she’ll be up to in 10 years time.” - NME - 8/10
|Polly Scattergood is a singer songwriter from Essex, England. She has been described as ethereal, dark, intense and quirky while her musical style has been described as “early 21st century electro-dance-pop of London proper”.
On November 10 2008 Scattergood was a guest on the Rob Da Bank show where three of her songs were played (“I Hate The Way”, “Untitled 27” & “Nitrogen Pink”). Da Bank called her “The Kate Bush of the 21st century”. Later that month, on the 28th, she played an acoustic set on the Janice Long show (“I Hate The Way”, “Please Don’t Touch” & “I’ve Got A Heart”). When asked about her discovery of music, she replied, “I found a guitar when I was about 12, in the coat cupboard, it had maybe 3 strings on it … I just taught myself”. |
