Continuing yesterday's Scottish theme, here's a sumptuous pop song from one of indie's true heroines. In her former role as vocalist and co-songwriter with The Delgados, Pollock was the dreamy voice behind many a granite-edged symphonic beauty. I Could Be A Saint is from her second solo album but could easily have slipped from a Delgados album - although it's a degree or two more strident than her former band, a defiant kiss-off to a useless lover - "How you gonna break my heart? When you've never even made my day?" - and replete a chorus that swoons and sweeps in all the right places. Bitterness has rarely sounded so sugar sweet.
I Could Be A Saint by Emma Pollock - listen on Spotify here.
From: The Law Of Large Numbers (2010)
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