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| Artist: Kate Nash
Label: Universal/Polydor
Category: Music
New (5) Used (5) from £4.23
Rating:  114 reviews
Sales Rank: 90736
Format: Explicit Lyrics, Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 1745515
UPC: 602517455153
EAN: 0602517455153
ASIN: B000V3L0ZK
Release Date: September 11, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great stuff April 12, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
 Almost painful to listen to. April 7, 2008
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
For reasons I won't go into I have had this album played at me on a frequent basis and I find that even if something is not to my taste I will at least be able to appreciate its qualities on repeated listens. Made of Bricks is an exception to this. Imagine the most inanely amateurish piano playing backed up by flaccid rhythms, then there's the singing...oof! The singing! There is an ad libbed section ant the end of one of the songs that I'm sure has ruptured my Shatner's bassoon. But, isn't she really profound or 'real' (that most meaningful of adjectives)I hear you cry?
Kate Nash is nothing if not methodical in her approach to lyric writing.If you'd like to follow Ms. Nash in her lamentable rise and rise, here's how: First draw up a list of mundane activities and quotidian objects or substances. Then make sure that they fit together thematically in a way that might be considered poor by GCSE standards. Now,how best to deliver your newly minted Kate Nash-style lyrics? Simply rid your self of any vocal talent you might have, then be sure to hide any charm or intrigue in your voice and there you have it! Bricks are sometimes made of baked excrement. This masonry fact might give you some hint as to what this CD is truly made of.
 What a great album April 3, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
It's not often that I feel strongly enough to write a review on here but after almost not buying this album after reading the reviews I am very glad I did. The only thing I can think is that anyone who didn't like the album didn't actually take time to listen to the lyrics. If you are the kind of person who can see past the occasional profanity to the truly excellent writing underneath you'll love this album. Quite simply excellent.
A breath of fresh air - well done March 27, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm constantly amazed by the narrow mindednes of many of the reviewers here. Firstly, she's from London and sings with a London/ cockney accent - that is how it should be. Are people not fed up with the generic mid Atlantic singing accent favoured by 99.5% of UK artists - these are the ones with the fake accents but they receive no criticism for it? I want to hear Brummie/ Scouse and whatever else accents in UK pop - what's the big deal?
She choses not to sing about cliched boy meets girl matters - unlike 99% of bands in the UK pop scene - again brownie points are due
The English Suzanne Vega (no, really) March 25, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Weird, quirky, poignant, intermittently inspired. Sounds like an English equivalent of Suzanne Vega's early albums (think Tom's Diner, Marlene on the Wall). The next album will be either a flop or a work of genius. This one's worth your time though.
And if you don't know who Suzanne Vega is, look her up on Amazon *NOW*. Go on, get on with it.
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