On debut album ‘Leave No Shadow’, Chrysanths’ Emily Scott creates a deep technicolour-tinged world, and finds herself flowering in new territory from that of her band Modern Studies. At once elegiac and celebratory, it has a swirling orchestra of Scotland’s finest strings at its core and is sensitively woven together by the thread of Scott’s effortless voice. Recorded in Scotland with Emily Scott firmly in the producer’s chair, ‘Leave No Shadow’ finds the artist flowering in new territory from that associated with her band, Glasgow-based Modern Studies. The most distinctive sonic elements here are the swirling, enveloping string arrangements written by Scott. With Susan Bear’s thoughtful bass guitar and Owen Curtis Williams’s delicate drums, the album takes on a luxurious timbre reminiscent of Jean Claude Vannier’s late ’60s studio work or the evocative world-building of Fontana-era Scott Walker.

Disc 1
1. Snow – Chrysanths
2. Rising – Chrysanths
3. Late Bloomer – Chrysanths
4. Landscapes – Chrysanths
5. Greenhouse – Chrysanths
6. Stones – Chrysanths
7. Blinds – Chrysanths
8. Repose – Chrysanths
9. Fleet – Chrysanths