Kate Nash's Beautifully Difficult Night
Dec. 3rd, 2013 09:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
koganbotFour of the five tracks from Have Faith With Kate Nash This Christmas are streamed on Soundcloud.
The EP is blatantly about Ambivalence And Faith and Uneasiness Regarding Christmas Cheer and in its searching abstractedness isn't nearly as powerful as was Aly & AJ's tense pairing of "Greatest Time Of Year" and "Not This Year" back in the day (or year). But Nash comes through musically, especially delivering the warm softness of "Silent Night" and making the warm tradition of "Auld Lang Syne" sound actually warm, if somewhat wistful, rather than the usual raucous.
Was Kate Nash always good? I remember her as precious, grating, twee, and irritating. I stayed away. Maybe the problem was that she wasn't irritating enough. The dif could be that she's gotten louder, though more on previous release Girl Talk than this one. Anyway, I haven't yet gone to her back catalog to see how badly I blew it the first time, which didn't include listen-throughs of her albs.
The EP is blatantly about Ambivalence And Faith and Uneasiness Regarding Christmas Cheer and in its searching abstractedness isn't nearly as powerful as was Aly & AJ's tense pairing of "Greatest Time Of Year" and "Not This Year" back in the day (or year). But Nash comes through musically, especially delivering the warm softness of "Silent Night" and making the warm tradition of "Auld Lang Syne" sound actually warm, if somewhat wistful, rather than the usual raucous.
Was Kate Nash always good? I remember her as precious, grating, twee, and irritating. I stayed away. Maybe the problem was that she wasn't irritating enough. The dif could be that she's gotten louder, though more on previous release Girl Talk than this one. Anyway, I haven't yet gone to her back catalog to see how badly I blew it the first time, which didn't include listen-throughs of her albs.
