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Two decades ago, Emma Niblett was a Nottingham kid kitted out in a Relax T-shirt. In 2005, she's come so far as to be able to offer up her own song called "Relax," but, rather than singing about trying to rein in imminent ejaculation, the lass — now called Scout — is singing about trying to not force her artistic voice, singing this to the accompanying strums of the frailest guitar. And, by the way she sings of her "little voice," in her little voice — a voice that's quite Cat Power-esque (and given that this song plays, briefly, with the imagery of losing the pitch of one's singing in the mix coming through the cans, and then freaking out, it's quite the apt comparison) — you figure that the artistic voice and Scout's little voice are one and the same. But when she repeats the refrain "Come on, Scout, relax/ Nothing's yours anyway," those lines offer an interesting insight into her aesthetic. Initially, it seems like a case of referring-to-self-in-the-third-person driven by either nuttiness or hilariousness, but soon it sets in that Niblett is singing about an artistic voice that dwells within her, that broadcasts through her, but that isn't actually hers. To these ears, it's the first time on her three-album/two-EP career that Niblett — whose songs set her singing to mostly just delicate guitar or bashed percussion — has hinted that this Scout business is artifice, that her penchant for wearing wigs on stage, and for creating an almost mythical persona, is a ritualistic way of tuning into the transmission of this schizophrenic voice, a voice from within that Emma has decided to distance herself from by calling it Scout, a name pulled from the pages of To Kill a Mockingbird. On this, her third disc, we witness a strange dance between Emma and Scout, there being songs here where, in pure Scout mode, she sings those silly lyrics (from "DJ Deathprince of Now is her name/ Hot to death/ It gets hot to death" to "I was so excited/ Just to be in your car/ O!, fuck Treasure Island!"), and there being others where it seems like the songsmith, as herself, is pleadingly searching for her impish muse (a muse who, if we're to read between the ridiculous lines, was at some stage kidnapped by Neptune). "Pompoms" finds Niblett asking: "Does anybody know a cute girl with some pompoms?/ ...because everybody needs someone to spell out their name, in the little song"; this references those past tunes (like "Linus," from the "I Conjure Series" gear, or "It's All for You", from her last longplayer, the cutely titled I Am) where Scout's spelt-out cheerleader chants and butch backbeats have made for a righteous Bee. The opening sentiments of "It's All for You" — "Oh, sweet lifer, I tremble but my course does not" — are evoked again on this disc's closing cut, "Where Are You?", which also revisits that same sense of "home" (and, perhaps, the him waiting at home) as inspiration, with Niblett pledging to return to her "loving home of silence" as Emma once she's through making her "fucking noise" as Scout.


by Anthony Carew




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