Naomi Scott Releases Debut Album 'F.I.G'

British artist Naomi Scott has released her debut album, F.I.G. The record draws on 1980s soft ballad songwriting and sophistipop textures, reworked into a contemporary production style. Pitchfork has already published a review of the album, describing the debut as "as stylish as it is easygoing."

What the album sounds like

Per Pitchfork's description, F.I.G isn't a retro pastiche — it takes the arranging vocabulary of 1980s ballads and the smooth surfaces of sophistipop and places them inside a modern production framework.

Sophistipop refers to a mid-1980s strand of British pop built on jazz-inflected harmony, clean arrangements and urbane vocal delivery, prioritizing polish over force. That lines up with Pitchfork's read on the record: stylized, but never uptight.

A debut LP

F.I.G is Naomi Scott's first full-length solo album. News of the release and the Pitchfork review were shared via Pitchfork's official Instagram account.

The full review can be found via the link on Pitchfork's official Instagram post.