| Pretty Ugly | |
| Type: | Studio |
| Artist: | Scratcha DVA |
| Cover: | Pretty Ugly (Scratcha DVA album).jpg |
| Released: | 2012 |
| Recorded: | London, UK, Cape Town, South Africa and Atlanta, USA. |
| Genre: | Electronic |
| Length: | 44:00 |
| Label: | Hyperdub[1] |
| Next Title: | NOTU URONLINEU |
| Next Year: | 2016 |
Pretty Ugly is the debut studio album by Scratcha DVA.[2] It was released 19 March 2012 through Hyperdub.[3]
It was recorded in London, Cape Town, and Atlanta.
Pitchfork wrote that the album "wears its polemical heart on its sleeve, offering a manifesto for an approach to dance music that looks askew, glances awry, and always moves out of kilter." The Quietus wrote that Pretty Ugly contains "a decent scattering of funky-ish house tracks," while allowing Scratcha DVA the opportunity to be more "stylistically divergent."[4] BBC Music called it "an exhilarating debut album from Leon Smart’s DVA alias, full of complexity."[5] Exclaim! wrote that the album's "decidedly upbeat atmosphere dodges any pattern or semblance."[6]