Scribble was a short-lived project of Australian musician and songwriter Johanna Pigott, formerly of punk band XL Capris. Acting as lead vocalist, guitarist, pianist, keyboardist, songwriter, and producer, Pigott recruited her partner Todd Hunter for bass and keyboards, as well as a slew of session musicians. She eventually dissolved Scribble to focus more on her writing, and went on to rack up many songwriting and screenwriting credits, including Keith Urban’s first single, “Only You,” which is unsurprising given how good it is (also he looks confusingly hot in this admittedly blurry video? I regret none of these opinions). Though Scribble has garnered a little bit of cult interest, it never received much critical acclaim that I would argue this record most certainly deserves.
Prim, elegant sophisti-pop tinged with post punk and new wave. Opener “It’s Blue” is such a pleasurable, effortless piece of guitar pop that it feels like taking a hot bath and is a big part of why I’ve had this record on repeat for the past few weeks. Elsewhere, find Pigott’s opiated, smoky, slow-jazz take on “The Lady Is A Tramp,” bombastic brassy new wave on “Adaptability,” and an absolutely sublime cover of Roxy Music’s “Mother Of Pearl,” which, despite being eight minutes long, always makes me wish it were longer. An ideal wintertime record that feels more and more like a favorite sweater with each listen. Thank you Flo for bringing me here via this excellent mix :}
circa. 85 J.P was a writer on this 6 part “Youf” ABC TV series …
it would be a bit hard to quantify how ‘influential’ this was, but at least i can say on a personal note it probably fuelled my own band-starting ambitions at the time …
in case you have a spare few hrs to devote to some b-grade tv, interspersed with some fairly reasonable 80s Oz pop-craft.
https://youtu.be/P3zaf3FTvpM?t=40
thanks tim! i read a little about her television work but didn’t have much context for it as an american; cool to know just how meaningful it was. happy new year~
This is quite lovely find,thanks
this is what I come here for. Amazing. And I’m not even talking about the Jane Siberry record ! Thank you and happy new year.
Just want to express my gratitude for this DL, I also discovered Scribble through Flo Dill’s Sanpo mix and I’ve been coveting the full LP ever since. 🙂
That Roxy Music cover is a life-altering tune.
Any chance of a re-up?
link still seems to be working for me, but just in case i’ve re-upped for you here: https://www87.zippyshare.com/v/KldxYrJq/file.html
Re-re-up, please?
the download link seems to still be working fine–many parts of europe have blocked zippyshare; if you’re there i’m told you can download tor to get around it or you can download opera and use its built in VPN. also definitely consider downloading an adblocker if you haven’t already, as it makes navigating zippyshare (and the internet in general) way more pleasant. hope that helps!
Not working fine, now – either with or without a VPN, it’s a dead link “due to inactivity”. Can you please re-up?