Since meeting at Goldsmiths University in the middle of the last decade, Scrounge — Lucy Alexander (vocals, guitar) and Luke Cartledge (drums, vocals, electronics) — have been trying to express how it feels to be a young person living and working in a fast-changing metropolis, balancing the constant pressure cooker of making rent and staying healthy with a desire to make art and properly engage with the communities that make London what it is.
 

They spent the first couple of years of their collaboration gigging hard across the capital and occasionally outside it, taking Megabuses and trains to shows; eventually, they boiled down their ideas into a brand of sharp, concise art-punk that introduced elements of folk, techno and industrial music into a more familiar cocktail of noise-rock and riot grrrl influences.

This work culminated in their debut mini-album, Sugar, Daddy, out now via Fierce Panda.