Polly Scattergood is that rare talent, a musician and songwriter who can make the disturbing sound delightful. She might sing about suicidal tendencies, sadness in the air, spitting on her French knickers and being called a whore, but she does so in such an idiosyncratically alluring, soft little-girl voice, pretty pop context, that you can’t help being seduced. Considering herself more a songwriter that sings, she keeps her voice out front in the mix so all the words can be heard on the bold, quirky, candid songs on her self-titled debut out now on Mute. With a perverse sense of pride on “Please Don’t Touch” she lists all her shortcomings: “I can’t play pretty tunes… My hair is always messy… I can’t walk in a straight line… I like to play piano but it’s often out of tune…” to a jaunty, finger-snapping 60′s backdrop. But the remixes by Electro-pop duo Golden Filter are absolute electro disco bliss. They play up her idiosyncrasies with mid-tempo space sounds, big 80′s sythns, rolling tom-toms and reverb to give Polly a mean nu-wave wallop.

“Polly is a real talent. Intense, quirky, ethereal and Sylvia Plath-dark, she’s like a 21st Century lo-fi Kate Bush crossed with PJ Harvey, mixing microbeats and electric guitars.” – The Telegraph, UK