
Polly Scattergood is a rare talent, a musician who can make the disturbing sound delightful. Built around fractious yet delicate guitar and piano (she plays a stylophone and accordion too), and Scattergood's distinctive voice, the album is produced by Simon Fisher-Turner and Gareth Jones. She sounds something like Kate Bush meets Kate Nash on hard drugs. She also sounds as if she could probably kick your ass. Her songs lure you in by sounding fragile, but in reality they are sharper than a wall of razor blades. It's haunting stuff that's pretty damn good...in a [...]