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8.5
55708
8.5 |
The Quietus
It's Up To Emma is as blatant an intimate reckoning with betrayal, anger and pain as it gets and yet it's Scout Niblett's most sonorous, most beautiful album to date
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8.4
54852
8.4 |
Paste Magazine
It’s Up To Emma sounds richer and fuller than past records, the lyrical directness adding one more driving force in a mix balanced out by taut strings, bone-shake tambourine and railcar blasts of EBow
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8.0
55154
8.0 |
Loud And Quiet
Of her own work it most resembles 2001’s Sweet Heart Fever, except the sweet heart is now a broken one. Oh, and it’s scarily good
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8.0
54740
8.0 |
All Music
The naked emotion expressed here doesn't exactly make for an easy listening experience, but it's a brave, welcome, and perhaps even necessary one
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7.6
54738
7.6 |
Pitchfork
The real work of this album is just how far she lures us into the this character's dark cocoon
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7.5
54739
7.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
A record that makes fragility sound pretty devastating
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7.5
56240
7.5 |
Under The Radar
Personal, introspective work
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7.0
54737
7.0 |
musicOMH
Scout Niblett may be tormented, but she does it well
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7.0
54777
7.0 |
Uncut
Listen with the lights on. Print edition only
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6.0
54796
6.0 |
NME
Songs average about five minutes, and tend to have one simple, good idea that doesn’t bear extensive repeating
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6.0
54754
6.0 |
Q
The listener will feel they've experienced the same soul-scouring catharsis as Scout herself. Print edition only
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6.0
54736
6.0 |
The Fly
Niblett seems to have coined a new genre: “me” rock
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