New Kate Nash album

I don’t know much about music, I can’t play anything, I don’t know what instruments are making what sounds in whatever song. I don’t know jack.

I heard Kate Nash’s first album Made of Bricks back when it first came out in 2007, and I’ve been hooked ever since. Since I had the album virtually on repeat, it got boring quickly: leaving me searching endlessly for a close substitute. My Best Friend is You came out last night. I popped that shit in, closed my eyes, turned up the volume and went through as much as I could before sleeping for an 8AM class.

Again, I don’t know jack about music, I don’t know what makes a song good or bad, or how to even describe the songs and musicians I like. But this album, I absolutely love how playful it is. There are all these melodies that feel so disjointed in their performance, but sequential in it’s form. The vocals, sometimes split into two different recordings completely unified and contrasting. Tip-toeing piano, and the dry sarcastic lyrics I have grown to love.

The track Mansion Song starts with a rant which seems more like the reciting of a satirical poem, and for some reason it makes me think of a freestyle rap. A depressing and inspiring sort of narrative which is highly relevant. Of course it transitions into a full fledged track in it’s own right but it is absolutely everything I believe delivered with an angry, shouting, raging voice speaking out against the rampant social circumstances.

Strip! Strip! Strip! And shag! Fuck! Get fucked in drag! And be impressed!