Product Description

'Made Of Bricks' is the debut album from Harrow songstress Kate Nash. Pop music with indie sensibilities and an experimental edge permeate much of this album, and it is topped offwith Nash's distinctive estuary vocal stylings. Includes the single 'Foundations'.

Track Listing

1. Play
2. Foundations
3. Mouthwash
4. Dickhead
5. Birds
6. We Get On
7. Mariella
8. Shit Song (interlude) / Shit Song
9. Pumpkin Soup
10. Skeleton Song
11. Nicest Thing
12. Merry Happy / Little Red

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #148 in Music
• Released on: 2007-08-06
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 56 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Kate Nash is the perfect pop starlet. She sounds enough like one existing star to make her an already snug fit for your tastes (if it needs spelling out for you--L.I.L.Y.A.L.L.E.N--there's no getting away from the thematic and elocutionary parallels, no matter how much the lady doth protest). She's ordinary-ish. She's you, your girlfriend, that girl over there you adore/admire, only clearly cuter and packed with a sharper tongue. She sings of nothing much, but sings it with juicy vim and bright expressions through a deliciously theatrical voice-box, a hangover from her stage school background that faltered, leading her to channel her wit and personality into writing songs. A sprinkling of anarchy too--something for the parents to disapprove of? Well, she's got a filthy mouth and a frankly blasé grasp of the Queen's English. It's a shame really that she's not quite made the perfect pop debut to match, but Made of Bricks is a damn fine first run, when it gets it right. The jerky prelude to the album proper, "Play" reminds briefly of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Bis, segueing into the Lily Allen plays Carter USM playfulness of "Foundations". "Dickhead" is a silly, smoky blues ditty, the massive, gyrating "Pumpkin Song" is Sugababes with their hair pulled behind the bike sheds, key-hammering highlight "Mariella" reminds of expressive vaudeville New Yorkers the Dresden Dolls and "We Get On" could be a Grease outtake, though nothing the innocent Olivia Newton John would ever wrap her lips around. Like Lily Allen then, but not that much. --James Berry

Customer Reviews

I Just think its Great
The songs are so catchy and with much greater depth than i thought they might be. Initially i liked the album but after a few listens i love it. I was going to list my prefered tunes but theres not really one i dont like - which is unusual for most albums.

Made of the contents of an un-flushed toilet
I have listened to ten songs on this album and I have forbidden to inflict further pain on my poor ears by NOT listening to the remaining three predictable auditory disasters. Why, you ask?! Because this album is bloated with none other than dreadful piffle after dreadful piffle...! Wanna know the main glitches of this pathetic excuse of an album? Firstly, we have some wannabe chav, pulling of a blatantly false common-as-muck accent, whom tries to make up for her zilt range and lacklustre control and stamina by carefully pronouncing all syllables, and straining her gut to hold a note for a second or two. Her vocals are carefully computer generated to remove the vapid spitting, grunting, choking and breathy vibrations sprouting from her throat, that is showcased bare and nude when Nash performs live, without the help of a machine to enhance her putrid vocals. Then of course, there's the same-old-same-old plinky-plonky piano which is encompassed in near enough every song, not to mention Nash's foul, persistent use of bad grammar which proves grimmer than decade bowel rot! ...And how could we forget to mention the horrid decpetion of lyric? Nash has blatantly pasted a teenager's MSN convo onto WordPad, printed the ya-ya-ya onto paper, and strolled down to her local recording studio to decieve the dire nonsense as "lyric".

Great stuff
I purchased this album mainly because the local radio stations have been play a lot of Kate Nash, specially the track `Foundations' which I can't just get out of my head. The album in general is great and has given my extensive collection a slightly different theme. Over all despite the negativity, nice and different.