Made Of Bricks - Kate Nash

Kate Nash is a 20 year old singer songwriter from Harrow, London. Making her début through record label Moshi Moshi in February 2007 with double-A side 'Caroline's a Victim/Birds', she was soon snapped up by Fiction Records the following month. How Kate Nash made the transition from an independent to a major label in one month is beyond me as in my opinion Kate Nash music has to be the most irritating to have graced the UK charts since Crazy Frog hit the number one spot in 2005 with 'Axel F'. 'Made Of Bricks' starts promisingly with the short musical opening of 'Play', however things quickly turn sour as 'Foundations' kicks in, quickly followed by the soon to ...  Read the complete review

If you ever find yourself wanting to read a review about Kate Nash and find that within the first paragraph she gets compared to Lily Allen; do yourself a favour and throw away the review, burn it, and then stamp on any little fluttery charred bits that remain. Whilst Lily Allen may have been a little responsible for helping to properly kick off Kate's career, there is barely any connection to be made apart from the fact that both of them are from London. Nash was working at River Island when she fell down some stairs and broke her foot. In the three weeks she had to spend recovering, she picked up a bass guitar and started playing. By the time she had ...  Read the complete review

I love my music and particularly like new talent, something really different and original. A friend of mine recommended the singer Kate Nash to me and so I had a listen on her Myspace page. By seeing a photo of her I was quite shocked when I heard her sing as she has a similar style to Lily Allen in the sense that she sings with her typical London accent. Kate Nash is only 20 years old and is doing well at the minute; she is playing a lot of the recent summer festivals and has done well in the UK charts with her song ‘Foundations’. Kate was rejected by the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and days later fell down stairs, breaking her foot. During the recovery ...  Read the complete review

Kate Nash owes her success to myspace and youtube as tese sites were the ones that allowed her to build up a following big enough to propel her records into the charts and hence her first album titled Made of Bricks was launched. I found this album slightly disappointing, beyond the obvious quality of the hit records there was a lack of depth to the album. Foundations is the best track on the album by far however this was also the biggest hit from the album so it is the one that I had heard to death already before I bought the album, I had hoped for more tracks of a similar quality but I was disappointed. Kate Nash is a talented song writer and her ...  Read the complete review

It seems like the secret these days to get pop success is to either appear on a TV reality show or to build up a following on myspace and Bebo and get some recording success that way. Kate Nash took the latter route which will probably mean she has a longer shelf life that some of the output from reality TV however in my opinion she will need to improve on this her debut album. As debut albums go it is not all bad however it does feel slightly like the album was rushed out to take advantage of the runaway success of the singles in that there is not enough depth to the other tracks which fail to lend any support to the rather good songs that made it ...  Read the complete review