Product Description

'I Am ' is the first album for Too Pure by Scout Niblett (aka Emma Louise Niblett). Her music has been compared by critics to acts such as Nirvana, Sonic Youth and PJ Harvey. Thisrelease features production work by Steve Albini.

Track Listing

1. Miss Inlove With Her Own Fate
2. No-ones Wrong (Giricocola)
3. In Love
4. Until Death
5. Fire Flies
6. I'll Be A Price (Shhh)
7. Boy
8. Texas
9. Drummer Boy
10. 12 Miles
11. Your Beat Kicks Back Like Death
12. Its All For You
13. I Am

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10148 in Music
• Released on: 2003-09-01
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Be Yourself
It's true. One must "get it" in order to enjoy this album; although this is probably her most accessible album (and that is probably owing to Steve Albini). However, if you really "want to like this record", you are sure to miss the mark. It has to come naturally - like the way she makes her music. Just relax.
It's a mistake to think that she is "trying" to be original. She is simply being herself - which can be a monumental task for anybody that has lived past the age of 6 or 7 years. In fact we are all born original, just as every snowflake is unique. In Scout Niblett you have an example of an individual without as many of the affects of society causing the strain to be good enough - she has nothing to prove for your sake. It can be very refreshing to find a grown-up able to behave in this manner.
She doesn't pretend to be a highly skilled musician, and she doesn't put the craftsman down as the predictable indie-rocker under-achiever might. It's amazing that she can just let it fly and all of the notes land in the right place. That's proof for the rest of us.
Perhaps the best thing about Scout Niblett is the example she makes of herself: she lets go, and she is herself. Again, she has nothing to prove. It is so refreshing in a world where everybody is trying to convince one another what they are worth and how and why they're so special. With a little faith, one's worth is evident. When you were a kid you didn't have to think about it. Scout Niblett has a way of getting back to that place.
Yes, she can be herself and she doesn't try to convince you. Try it. You may find it's not so easy as you think.
On the other hand, you don't have to get it.

Awkward, brilliant sound.
If you're expecting to hear the same old lyrics, same old tunes, same old sound, you'd be mistaken. It's probably quite a particular taste but if you get it, you really get it! Strange and different but equally important. She says what she thinks (and bangs the drums like she means it) instead of sticking to the confines of modern musics conventions.

spin it once before throwing it away
Faux naive and insubstantial.

I wanted to like this record, and I came at it with very open ears. I'm normally perfectly happy with sloppy playing and crude indie dynamics - I love Johnny Dowd - if the heart and soul is there, but it isn't on this record. Short tracks of simplistic poems accompanied only by drums, intersperse with guitar-y efforts that backup the frequent comparisons with early PJ Harvey.

However, the aphoristic lyrics don't satisfy, since, like the cover art, they're cute and childlike but don't actually say anything interesting. Accompanied by the deliberately badly played accompaniments and it just seems like Niblett is trying too hard to be original and kooky without the material to render it actually interesting.

Steve Albini's production production is invisible, as it probably should be, so that generally the album sounds like it was recorded at home, which goes with the naive subject matter.

I wasn't bored, but it's highly unlikely I'll ever listen to this again unless I forget what it is in 10 years when i next move house and spin it once before throwing it away.