LIVE REVIEW: SCOUT NIBLETT
The Borderline, Manette St, W1
Emma Louise "Scout" Niblett's music eschews pretty melodies to realise a potent, uneasy beauty. Searing conviction and harsh guitar have courted comparisons to PJ Harvey, but the transfixing tension in tonight's Cherry Cheek Bomb reveals a singular talent.
Scout employs one guitar and a drum kit to carry the weight of her creations.
Visibly in thrall to them, she snarls into the mic one minute over stretched, fuzzed-out guitar, gleefully throwing her arms up the next as her drummer hammers new holes into your eardrums.
And in The Borderline's intimate environs, latest LP The Calcination's quiet-loud-quiet aesthetic come alive.
Purposeful tranches of silence veritably fizz with tension and atmosphere as Scout squeezes the lyrics of Just Do It out of her slight frame between gritted teeth.
You daren't look away as her bipolar performance unfolds. Without a wasted note or beat throughout, Scout signs off an invigorating set in style with the ominous Meet And Greet. - STEPHEN MOORE
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