Chrysanths is the Glasgow-based singer and composer Emily Scott.

Scott is best known for her work as the frontwoman of Modern Studies, a folkloric chamber-pop band who have released four LPs and three EPs with Fire Records.

The Chrysanths debut LP, ‘Leave No Shadow’, is out September on iconic Scottish label Chemikal Underground. It’s an album of reflective, bucolic, down-beat piano songs, with string orchestra, synths and drums. It’s available now for pre-order in all formats, including limited-editon rose-pink vinyl with 24-page piano score and play-along cd.

Scott’s main drive is beauty and lyricism before fashion, mood and sense of place before feelings, and she has been described simulataneously as out of her time, and timeless.

Compositional work includes ‘Gingko’, a string quartet commissioned by Glisk, and ‘She breathes, she becomes’, a new work for strings, winds and percussion premiered by the SCO in June 2024 as part of their UN:TITLED programme.

“Emily Scott’s voice is a beautiful thing. It flies like Sandy Denny, but has the wounded intimacy of Beth Gibbons and the precision of Christine McVie”
(We Are There, MOJO)

“Her voice is cool, clear and unsentimental, with echoes of some of the great English stylists, from Sandy Denny to Jacqui McShee”
(We Are There, UNCUT)

“her mellow songwriting style was utterly intoxicating, comprising a ravishing harmonic blend of voices, seductive chord changes and unusual time signatures”
(Live review, the SCOTSMAN)