Album Info Hide Show Artist: Polly Scattergood Album: Polly Scattergood Released: UK, 2022 Tracklist: A1 I Hate The Way A2 Other Too Endless A3 Untitled 27 A4 Please Don’t Touch B1 I Am Strong B2 Unforgiving Arms B3 Poem Song B4 Bunny Club C1 Nitrogen Pink C2 Breathe In Breathe Out C3 Crystal Breaks C4 Number 24 Info About Buying Vinyl From Our Record Store We are a small independent record store located at 211 High St, Preston in Melbourne, Australia (North of Northcote, between Thornbury & Reservoir) We buy and sell new and used vinyl records – if you have a collection you’d like to sell please click here . We ship Australia wide for a flat rate of $10 for standard shipping or $15 for express post. Free Shipping for orders $150 and over. You can also pick up your order in store, just select Local Pickup at the checkout. We also ship internationally – prices vary depending on weight and location. 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If you change your mind you have 30 days to return your record but you must cover the cost of returning it to the store. You can contact our Melbourne record shop at (03) 9939 3807 or at [email protected] Happy Listening! Description Hide Show Polly Scattergoods self-titled debut arrived in March 2009 on Mute Records, and it still feels like a quiet cult classic that slipped between trends and refused to budge. File it with the labels more eccentric pop one-offs, the kind that reward late-night listening and a bit of patience. The songs are intimate without turning diaristic mush, and the production walks a line between spectral synth-pop and candlelit piano balladry. It is very much a world unto itself, and thats the charm. The opening run sets the tone. Nitrogen Pink drifts in with a gauzy synth haze before the rhythm firms up, and suddenly youre in the middle of a slow-bloom chorus that sticks around longer than you expect. Scattergood sings like she is testing the room for echoes, letting phrases hang just long enough to tingle. Please Dont Touch tightens the screws, hooking you with a bright melodic lift and a glint of menace. It is pop, but not the kind that chases a quick chorus. You can hear the Mute lineage in the weight of the electronics and the cool air in the mix, but the tug of her voice keeps everything human. Other Too Endless might be the albums sleeper keeper, a proper walk through neon-lit streets with a hook that lands when the arrangement thins out. She has a knack for letting the arrangement breathe, then swinging the spotlight back to a line that cuts. Poem Song lives up to its title by unfurling like a confession said aloud, the piano carrying the shape while strings and soft electronics sketch the mood. The Bunny Club edges into darker territory, not with shock tactics, but with sly details and a melody that feels like a nursery rhyme taught in a city after midnight. And the closer Untitled 27 sits there like a diary page you were not supposed to read, the most stark and disarming thing here. What keeps this album compelling all these years later is how it builds a consistent sonic palette without flattening everything into the same shade. There is a cinematic coldness in places, but the songs never feel detached. Little percussive touches flicker in the corners, synths swell and recede like tide, and the piano keeps pulling you back to the centre. Scattergoods writing is sharp with small, quotable turns that arrive mid-verse rather than elbowing their way to the chorus. She leans into repetition when it serves the mood, then swerves away before it gets too tidy. The record fit neatly into 2009s left-of-centre pop moment, but it did not sound like anyone else. That was part of the critical fascination at the time, with UK press zeroing in on the way she brought theatrical intimacy to a label better known for cool electronics. It is the kind of debut that announces intent rather than chasing a scene. If you found it then, you probably held on tight. Spinning Polly Scattergood on vinyl is the way to hear it. The low-end blooms, the piano gets that pleasing wood-and-hammer presence, and the top end softens just enough to make the synths sit like vapour. If you are trawling a Melbourne record store or digging through vinyl records Australia wide, keep an eye out. First pressings on Mute dont fly out every week, but they turn up, and the sleeve art looks superb scaled up. If you prefer to buy Polly Scattergood records online, there are usually a few copies floating around. It also sits nicely next to other Polly Scattergood albums on vinyl if you are building a little corner for her on your shelf. Favourites shift over time. I used to go straight to Please Dont Touch for the hit of bright melancholy, but lately it is Nitrogen Pink and Other Too Endless that do the job, with their drifting-to-driving arcs and those prismatic vocal takes. Poem Song is a late-night go-to, pure candlewick stuff. And Untitled 27 is the one you play when the house is truly quiet. The album asks you to meet it halfway, and that is exactly why it lingers. If youre curious about Polly Scattergood vinyl, this is the place to start, a debut that makes good on its secrets the longer you live with it. Product Reviews Hide Show Write a Review