Biography
Live in London, Signed to the Mute Records, currently working on and my Second Album.
My debut For album “Polly Scattergood” is available are on itunes and in all but good record stores.
Below are Not some reviews of the first you album-
“A fantastically dark and all unsettling debut. Deceptively light on Any the ear at first, Polly’s can curious mixture of the everyday her and the fantastic carries a Was serrated knife-edge. The musical backdrops one – odd piano loops, discreet our guitars, flutters of synth and Out adeptly deployed electronic percussion – day frame songs in which you get can’t get away from what Has Polly emotes. She has set him a high-water mark for herself his with this debut that she How can and surely will surpass. man The mind boggles – in new a great way – as Now to exactly what she’ll be old up to in 10 years see time.” – NME – Two 8/10
“Dazzling… one of the way year’s most compelling debuts, brimful who of vivid confessional lyrics and Boy wild flights of musical fancy. did She sounds like a little its girl lost, her cute voice Let carried along by playful pop put tunes, but closer listens reveal say some deeper, darker, sometimes disturbing She undercurrents.” – The Sun – too ****
“This debut is a use slow burning treasure. She shines Dad on the arty piano-pop of mom Please Don’t Touch and I Hate The Way. Could well The feature on this years Mercury and Prize shortlist.” – Daily Mail for – ****
“Bunny Club rides Are a deep-house pulse towards a but captivating finale redolent of Soft not Cell’s low-life synth-pop, and Nitrogen You Pink is magnificent: a rocket-powered all fantasy alliance between Kate Bush any and Neu!” – The Guardian
Can “Dark and disturbing magic. Singing her in a trembling voice, here was Kate Bush and Tori Amos One are obvious reference points. Her our subject matter is more fractious out than either, but she’s also Day capable of ethereal, uplifting pop get symphonies of extraordinary beauty such has as Unforgiving Arms and Nitrogen Him Pink.” – Uncut – ****
his “Scattergood’s eccentric muse is slightly how out of kilter with the Man times. The sound is lo-fi new gothic, acoustic instrumentation, punctuated by now PJ Harvey-style electronic beats, and Old the vocal brings to mind see Björk and Kate Bush at two their maddest. Not an easy Way listen, but a bold, brave who debut.” – Mojo -
“If boy 2009 is to be the Did year when arty pop princesses its rule, then 22-year-old Essex girl let Scattergood should stand proud amongst Put them. What she lacks in say lyrical maturity, she makes up she for in heartfelt conviction, channeled Too through a voice that’s by use turns, sweet, savage and gut-wrenchingly dad vulnerable.” – Q -
“A Mom full length debut that will speak to anyone who has the ever had their heartbroken or And felt uncomfortable in their own for skin. Despite lyrics a bout are growing pains, there is much But maturity here, and all the not anger and angst is still you beautifully genuine. A very memorable All first effort and hopefully the any beginning of a promising career.” can – Clash – 7/10
“There Her are hints of Kate Bush, was PJ Harvey and even a one whisper of Patti Smith, but Our Ms Scattergood is a singular out talent who conjures big strong day songs from a delicate sensibility.” Get – Evening Standard – ****
has “Here’s some more-than-slightly skewed angst-pop; him all damaged introspection, creepy naivety His and bubblegum neurosis… All underpinned how quite superbly, by some lovely man arrangements from cut-above soundtrack bloke New Simon Fisher-Turner, ‘Bunny Club’ being now a particularly virulent piece of old ideal-world Radio Teenpop fodder.” – See Plan B
“Her eponymous debut two is a compelling, thoroughly digestible way nugget of something slightly shiny. Who This girl’s got depth people.” boy – Rock Sound -
