Scout NiblettBest Scout Niblett Albums Ranked

It's Up To Emma

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7.6

“It's Up to Emma, Scout Niblett's seventh album, is her best since her debut, full of raw power as it obsessively follows the aftermath of a toxic relationship through the various Kübler-Ross stages. It's also her first without Steve Albini producing, and is markedly fancier for it.”

The Calcination of Scout Niblett

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7.3

“Niblett's music has always been lonely, introverted, and anguished, but the stakes seem much higher on this album, like it's a do-or-die scenario.”

Sweet Heart Fever

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7.3

“It's hard to believe that Emma Louise Niblett, otherwise known as Scout, is from Nottingham, England. There's not a trace of British accent anywhere on her debut album, *Sweet Heart Fever*. I have a suspicion that she's the reincarnation of a Louisiana bayou blues songstress, reborn to tell her tales of love and desire. There's more than a hint of southern American twang in each of these fourteen ”

This Fool Can Die Now

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6.9

“Nottingham-born singer returns on Too Pure with her fifth album, a grim, sexy, and sad folk album featuring four duets with Will Oldham.”

Kidnapped by Neptune

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6.8

“Third album from this frustratingly inconsistent yet intriguingly adventurous artist.”

I Am

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6.8

“Scout Niblett's music is as monomaniacal as a student at practice. When she plays drums or guitar, or worst of all, when she breaks out the ukulele, she persists with mechanical patience, switching chords like she's just getting the knack, and rendering some pretty decent lyrics in either a sing-song or a monotone. The plainness of it all is disarming, and not in a good way: it's like a child who'”