To make us wait until the release of her fourth album due in August, Miss Scout Niblett released two weeks ago a little 45. If these three titles are a foretaste of what awaits us, it's a safe bet that this album will finally be one of his consecration. Scout Niblett remains relatively unknown in effect where other female solo artist, Cat Power head, got a huge popular success (especially since his last two albums there a "smoothed"). Electric folk sound is not so far from what was Chan Marshall, or PJ Harvey in their infancy. The comparison is inevitable but Scout Niblett does not turn pale before his illustrious colleagues, quite the contrary. Army stripped her songs, just an amazing voice and a hint of electric guitar for most, and his roughened by her screams and distortion sudden, Scout Niblett manages to convey emotion like no other. Sometimes fragile, sometimes surly, sometimes childish but still dark, the sincerity with which she sings can not leave indifferent those who manage to forget himself in his music. "Dinosaur Egg", the flagship title of this new single is a little rhyme based on a text by David Shrigley, written for an American comics. This text innocent, in which a character asks his dinosaur egg to hatch so you can show his friends, took the hands of Scout Niblett a very dark connotation. By listening we do not know if the character she plays is just crazy or if he has a real dinosaur egg. It also calls to mind that it relies a bit later in the song "scare the shit out of you ...". In line with the text, the song is a childlike simplicity, everything is in motion, and it works wonderfully.
Despite all the qualities of the "Dinosaur Egg" is the second track of side A, "Just what I needed" that touches me the most. This is a cover of the Cars, transformed for the occasion. Pop / rock Ric Ocasek & Co, a little bland for my taste, she made a heartbreaking song. The text does not shine by its originality but sung as it does it takes another dimension. This little lady would be able to make us cry with a rendition of "It was a small ship" if it wanted to ...
I suggest you listen to these two songs and the original version of "Just What I Needed" from the Cars (for information). I do not stand up in drag "Wolfie," from his 2005 album "Kidnapped by Neptune" that remains for me his masterpiece. For the road, a video of Ms. Niblett interpreting his "Dinosaur Egg" a few weeks ago in London. The video quality but does not yet fully do justice to cette immense artiste live.
Scout Niblett - Dinosaur Egg
Scout Niblett - Just What I needed (The Cars cover)
The Cars - Just What I Needed
Scout Niblett - Wolfie
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