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It’s Up To Emma

Scout Niblett

It’s Up To Emma

Singer-songwriter and guitarist Emma Niblett's 6th collection of bluesy grunge rock songs

ADM rating[?]

7.1

Label
Drag City
UK Release date
20/05/2013
US Release date
21/05/2013
  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 7.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    A record that makes fragility sound pretty devastating
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  7. 7.5 |   Under The Radar

    Personal, introspective work
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  8. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    Scout Niblett may be tormented, but she does it well
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  9. 7.0 |   Uncut

    Listen with the lights on. Print edition only

  10. 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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  11. 6.0 |   Q

    The listener will feel they've experienced the same soul-scouring catharsis as Scout herself. Print edition only

  12. 6.0 |   The Fly

    Niblett seems to have coined a new genre: “me” rock
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