English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist noted for stripped-down arrangements, raw vocals and intense live performances. Several studio albums were recorded with producer/engineer Steve Albini.

Real name: Emma Louise Niblett (mentioned in reviews). Several albums reviewed on DeBaser include This Fool Can Die Now and The Calcination of Scout Niblett, both recorded by Steve Albini (mentioned in reviews). Live shows have featured Todd Trainer (ex-Shellac) on drums (mentioned in a live review). A 2005 live review states she was living in California at the time and describes her referring to herself as an astrologer and having a fondness for wigs (all details come from the cited live review).

English singer-songwriter noted for sparse, raw arrangements and powerful, unsettling vocals. Several DeBaser reviews cover studio albums recorded with Steve Albini and an intense live show featuring Todd Trainer. Critics praise minimalism, voice and dynamics while noting limited stylistic novelty. Recommended entry: the review of This Fool Can Die Now.

For:Listeners of minimalist indie/alternative rock, fans of raw vocals and intimate-but-violent live shows.

 These are eleven untameable and primordial macabre dances on the notes of psychotic and depleted blues ad libitum, barely guided by the prominence of percussion - typical of works curated by Albini, but even more accentuated in our stripped context - and set by graceless guitar decorations as if adorning an old and decaying Christmas tree in the madness stemming from persistent solitude.

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 Scout Niblett is essential, her songs are voice, guitar, and sometimes drums; her voice can get inside you and unsettle you: it's haunting, but also angry, much like her guitar, clean and crystalline, but ready for distortion and the drum's entrance in the more explosive parts.

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 She whispers, murmurs, winks then screams and growls.

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