April 13th - Letter "K" = Kate Nash

From the start I'm admitting that I'm phoning in this entry for the A-Z Blogging Challenge.  It just did not work well to go out of town when I got to some of my favorite letters that took awhile, especially when I was behind already.  Plus, I know the Letter "L" is going to be a beast...a good beast, but a tough one to get though. So for all that, I'm sorry Kate Nash.  You deserve a better entry than I'm going to give you.

I have to thank Luis Tovar, from Pretty Much Amazing or @pmablog, for introducing me to Kate Nash.  Luis compiles these playlist podcasts as a feature of his blog and on one of them he included Kate Nash's "Mariella".  I couldn't get that song out of head for days.  I just kept singing it over and over again until I bought Kate Nash's album, Made of Bricks.

It was Kate Nash's debut album, and I wondered why she wasn't more famous because the album was so smart and interesting.  The album had come out in 2007, and I didn't find it until 2009.  Her style is similar to other singer songwriters like Regina Spektor, but Kate Nash isn't so drab and depressing.  Her lyrics can be poignant or they can be crass, but they're very poetic.

Kate's second album, My Best Friend is You, came out in 2010.  She's definitely gotten angrier since her first album. but it still tells stories worth hearing.

 
Click to see some of my favorite Kate Nash songs...