Sunday, February 27, 2005

Scout Niblett - I Conjure Series EP

This came out between Sweet Heart Fever and I Am, but it's very much more towards that latter in sound. Whereas SHF was about stark-pretty Appalachian-y folk/pop songs and was largely structured around voice and guitar, I Am took on a distinctly punk feel, with Scout's sound mostly stripped down to voice + drum kit, and I Conjure Series is quite far advanced down the road to that second full-length. To be honest, the ep is more 'interesting' than 'good' - SHF is definitely my favourite of her three records to date - but it certainly is interesting, and there's no doubt that the idiosyncratic Emma Louise is following a muse all of her own.