We like girl music. Let us tell you about some.

Han­nah Rock­cliffe and Sophie Madeleine Ball, or Rocky and Balls are a super cute com­edy music duo who’ve pre­vi­ously been fea­tured on the likes of Boing Boing, Ukulele Hunt and Bear­duary. They’re as inter­est­ing and eclectic as that blog roll suggests.

With songs like I Heart You Online and Gaysong they’re well worth a listen and hope­fully just get­ting started.

In a sim­ilar vein Peggy Sue are a Brighton band com­prised of Rosa Rex, Katy Klaw and a man named Olly who plays the drums who we found quite by acci­dent some months ago. Their anti-soul/anti-folk sound has remained a staple of our car music since then and we highly recom­mend them. A sample of their music is avail­able here as are instruc­tions on how to down­load their latest EP.

Hoo­ray! There’s a new La Roux video. This time it’s the turn of “I’m Not Your Toy” for the single treat­ment and it’s very enjoy­able. Of course I would say that since I think I’m in love with Elly Jack­son.

And finally, but most import­antly, Polly Scat­ter­good! Brit School gradu­ate and eth­er­eal ingenue that she is her debut album sounds like a nervous break down at an after­noon pic­nic and there­fore it’s no sur­prise that a par­al­lel has been fre­quently drawn between her and Lewis Carrol’s Alice.

Of course that seems to hap­pen almost every time a young woman writes an exper­i­mental or inter­est­ing song but with her blond hair, obstin­ate pixie face and blue blue eyes you can’t help but notice a cer­tain sim­il­ar­ity.

If you’ll dir­ect your atten­tion here you’ll be able to watch the video for her single “Please Don’t Touch” — a catchy, poppy but indi­vidual num­ber that com­pletely dis­armed me by the first chorus.

You’re not going to be the first per­son to point out that she sounds like Kate Bush. Rob Da Bank already got to that com­par­ison on Novem­ber 10th of 2008 and ruined it for the rest of us. It’s lucky then that the rest of the album is stuffed full with moments where you’ll find your­self try­ing to place the musical influ­ence behind her songs and piecing together the land­scape of her brain.

Not for every­one (accord­ing to cer­tain review­ers — per­son­ally I’d recom­mend it to any­one ever) Polly Scat­ter­good will take you on a weird and some­times unset­tling jour­ney through a space often uncharted by mem­bers of the female pop scene. There’s more than a hint of genu­ine sexu­al­ity, instabil­ity and dark­ness that will often leave you won­der­ing what exactly it was you just heard and why you don’t hear it more often. Hon­est, vul­ner­able and yet some­how strong if this album doesn’t remind you a little of acts like Björk, Tori Amos or Bat For Lashes you’ve prob­ably never listened to them.

And if you decide, like I’m sure some of you will, that that is not a good thing then you are wrong.

Polly Scat­ter­good is a gem of a per­former and her album is a breath of fresh air in an already stag­nat­ing female led music scene.