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Rating: "Made Of Bricks", the 2007 debut album by Kate Nash, seemed like the secret diary of a good London girl. A place to vent anger, whims, heartaches, and more.
It had everything inside: swear words, love, adventures, and so much more, yet always accompanied by a unique freshness, a very rare genuineness in the contemporary music industry, which made Nash, in the eyes of critics and the public, an extremely rare pearl, a true revelation. And the album was a real diamond.
Yet the Caparezzian law that states "the second album is always the hardest in an artist's career" made no exception for the new indie-pop starlet, and two whole years of working on the album weren't enough to give us an equally memorable chapter.
The album is a melting pot, where, in a sort of schizophrenic outburst, the twenty-three-year-old throws in everything she likes and feels, attempting, not always successfully, to reinterpret it all in her personal style.
If in "I Just Love You More" it sounds like listening to a cover of Courtney Love, and "Take Me To A Higher Plane" could be the result if we combined Gogol Bordello and Vampire Weekend in one song, "Mansion Song" seems like a recording of thoughts and chants at a 21st-century feminist rally, "Do-Wha-Doo" (memorable first single) sounds like it's off a Pipettes album, and "Pickpocket" is pure 'ReginaSpektorian' citation.
Unfortunately, much of the album seems like songs taken out of the freezer and warmed up in the microwave, it loses the originality of the previous album, there's no track that could reach the peaks of brit-pop masterpieces like "Foundations" and "Skeleton Song"; on the contrary, songs like "Kiss That Grrrl", "Early Christmas Present", and "Later On" guiltily sound like offcuts from "Made Of Bricks".
Fortunately, "Don't You Want To Share The Guilt" with its charming ukulele strumming at the start, the aforementioned "Do-Wha-Doo", a formidable rockabilly take on jealousy, and the three acoustic closing tracks, where Kate Nash shows her calmer and more moderate side, whether at the piano, "Pickpocket", or with a guitar in hand, "You Were So Far Away", very close to "Anyone Else But You" from the film "Juno", and a new studio version of "I Hate Seagulls", undoubtedly the best track of the entire album, whose demo had already appeared on YouTube about a year before the album's release raising a chorus of approval from fans, lift the situation.
An album, therefore, disappointing compared to the debut, but good in its own small way.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
03 Don't You Want to Share the Guilt? (05:06)
Barbecue food is good
You invite me out to eat it
I should...go
But I'm feeling kind of nervous
And not quite myself
So I'm running late on purpose
And I know this won't help
How things have become between us
But if I go you'll give me hell
And that I don't know how to fix it
It's making me unwell
Well...
I arrive at your house
But you've just got up
And you're wearing a towel
And your eyes looked up
I help to dry your body
And I see your cut
So I give you a plaster
And we cover it up
I say have you been crying
And you say "Shut up"
So we sit in the garden
And touch the grass with our hands
The sun is going down now
And it's been ok
You tell me all the things you did
While I was away
And this worries me somewhat
You say you're fine
Listen
Can you hear it?
Does it speak?
Will I feel it?
Will it hurt?
Am I near it?
I don't know
i dont know how more people haven't got mental health problems
thinking is one of the most stressful things i've ever come across
and not being able to articulate what i want to say drives me crazy
i think i should read more book learn some new words
my sister used to read the dictionary i'm gonna to start with that
i'd like to travel i want to see india and the pyramids, a whale and that race with all the bicycles in france
i'm not sure about rivers they scare me
but i love swimming i'm good at it
and when i swim i count the laps and this helps me relax
when i was younger i saw a house burn down and i walked past it everyday for the next six years
derelict black chalky and dangerous i wondered if squatters lived there
im still not sure but i know there were not any parties cause it was a shithole
after a while the council got round to tidying up the town
they decided it was an eye sore so they tore it down
behind the house was a wall with a few bits of crappy graffiti and the word cunt written in giant letters and i walked pass that
i like going to the par i like walking through it
i like taking my dogs there and friends and i like being alone
i like being able to shout but i wish i could be quiet
when i'm quiet people think i'm sad and usually i am
sometimes when i'm at a really noisy train station one of the ones with the big fat trains like kings cross
i feel like putting down my bags and shouting things out because i have something to say
Don't you want to share the guilt?
Don't think just try and sleep
10 Later On (03:36)
That boy behind the curtain was no one that I trusted
I didn't like his face I didn't think he was cute
But I kissed him just to get some information
I used my body and his desperation
We jumped up out of there, yeah we were chased
And I'm telling you that that time was a scary place
But I would do it all again the same yeah, I would do it all again the same
And later on I'll cry my stupid eyes out
Later on I'm crying like a baby
And yeah baby don't get so disappoint
I am not what you anticipated
Later on I'll cry my stupid eyes out
Later on I'm crying like a baby
And yeah baby don't get so disappoint
I am not what you anticipated
I wish that I did not make the decisions
I'll never get back in to that
I ripped my hair out of my package
Cause I felt bad
I let him down
I didn't mean to make him sad
And later on I'll cry my stupid eyes out
Later on I'm crying like a baby
And yeah baby don't get so disappoint
I am not what you anticipated
Later on I'll cry my stupid eyes out
Later on I'm crying like a baby
And yeah baby don't get so disappoint
I am not what you anticipated
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven
And later on I'll cry my stupid eyes out
Later on I'm crying like a baby
And yeah baby don't get so disappoint
I am not what you anticipated
Later on I'll cry my stupid eyes out
Later on I'm crying like a baby
And yeah baby don't get so disappoint
I am not what you anticipated
I am not what you anticipated
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