Made of Bricks | 
| Artist: Kate Nash
Label: Polydor
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Rating:  115 reviews
Sales Rank: 54769
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 602517452077
EAN: 0602517452077
ASIN: B000UINP68
Release Date: September 10, 2007
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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
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 Great start. December 26, 2009
chriss619 (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Kate Nash is somewhat different to other singers. She has a quirky way of bringing across her music and this is evident in her songs.
Anyone looking for something different with complete and utter randomness will find this not only interesting but fascinating.
Foundations, Mariella and Pumpkin Soup are, in my opinion, the best songs off her album however I beleive there are songs that do let it down such as Skelenton Song and We Get On as they don't seem to have that WOW factor which is why it never got the full 5 stars.
But overall, it is a good buy and i'm hoping she makes a second one.
Strange Album September 26, 2009
J. Creighton (Clacton On Sea, Essex Great Britain)
I really like artists that use vocals as an instrument and Kate Nash does this perfectly. Its a weird album, that Ive listened to repeatedly im not sure if I like it, I do know I dont dislike it, sounds contradictory I know but its one of those rare albums to hit the mainstream that I think you could almost call experimental. Im buying a second copy as my first was stolen from my car, teh thieves left other albums but took this one. Says a lot.
 Absolute Drivel for Serious Masochists September 22, 2009
A. J. Davies
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Fed up of hammering nails through your hands? Then try this album, it's even more painful.
 Not good enough June 8, 2009
James Carr
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is not what you should be buying. Check out Big Linda's 'I Loved You'
Doesnt stand up to repeated listening - but a definite talent ! December 21, 2008
kloossy (England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I came to this only knowing the great "Foundations" track - a great mix of melancholic ruminations on a disintegrating relationship but I have to say that I found this album quite tedious to listen to. Kate's slightly hoarse delivery of her vocals (sexy at first I have to admit) becomes a little boring after a while. And yes, she can write some cheeky lyrics and these I imagine are what the "youngsters" latch onto but theres nothing of any great depth here. The exceptions are "Foundations" and also "Nicest Thing" - by the time you get to this latter track I was really grateful for a subtle change in the overall sound which this track has. It has a beautifully melancholy violin in the background which suits the lyrics perfectly. I can only guess that someone different produced this track as it is head and shoulders above the others - and this is the kind of track I'd like to hear Kate do more of.
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