Pretty Ugly is the debut studio album by Scratcha DVA.

[citation needed] 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.

"[5] 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.

"[8] BBC Music called it "an exhilarating debut album from Leon Smart’s DVA alias, full of complexity.

wrote that the album's "decidedly upbeat atmosphere dodges any pattern or semblance.