Kate Nash – Made of Bricks
I was first introduced to Kate Nash while searching for various covers. I stumbled across her covers of Fluorescent Adolescent (Arctic Monkeys) and I’m Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You (Black Kids). She has a unique voice and slowly won me over with these covers (I think her rendition of INGTTYBHTDWY is much better then the original).
Kate Nash lists one of my favorite artists, Regina Spektor as an influence though most call her a bit of a mix between Lily Allen and Spektor, a comparison I would’ve gone with without reading anything. Kate Nash is a 20-year old British hottie, and I’d very much like to marry her (anyone wanna introduce her to me? haha). Anyway from listening to her stuff she definitely is a very talent songwriter with a great voice. Not as quite as good as Regina but I don’t think many can compare. Nash is compared to Allen because she sings with the usually curse word, kind of the bad ass attitude shown by Allen.
To me Kate is much more talented then Lily Allen. Her album Made of Bricks which is released in the States in January should probably be a huge hit (if not there is no God as she is too talented). She’s quite a hit with the blogs, YouTube and mySpace so it’s only a matter of time before she becomes successful in the mainstream (and then I’ll forget about her because the mainstream is not cool) Her album has received “meh” reviews but I think this album is more about talent and artistry rather then the pop songs that Lily Allen spews out. Specifically Pitchfork (I hate their reviews) shows no consistency when reviewing this album but whatever I still use it as potential new albums that are released. I don’t read their reviews and only check out the mySpaces of the artist myself.
I’ll give it a 4 out of 5. For being solid and giving me a few songs that I really love.
Foundations, Mouthwash and Mariella ended up being my favorites (though I loved a few others). Mariella shows such great vocal talent and you should listen to the song fully.
Mariella by Kate Nash
Foundations by Kate Nash
Video for Mouthwash:
It is easy to see why she is compared to Lily Allen (sorry I am still a fan of hers…she’s into hypnosis and all:) ). Very cool, though.