This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission on items purchased through this article, but that does not affect our editorial judgement. Where were you when Kate Nash went punk? I ask because the second to last time I checked out the music from the “ Foundations ” singer-songwriter was around the time she released “ Under-estimate The Girl ,” which I found incredibly fierce.
Was this the new direction that Nash was heading towards? Have the days of her cottage-core style dressing, eschewing the twee -like nature she returned to with her last album, 2018’s “Yesterday was Forever,” or with the label releasing her new work, was it a throw back to 2013’s “Girl Talk?” Advertisement Advertisement Sign up to our weekly newsletter , sent on Wednesdays Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Harborough Mail, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you. When I saw that her fifth studio album, “ 9 Sad Symphonies, ” was being released through Kill Rock Stars , I immediately thought that we’d be getting more of that spectrum of Nash’s songwriting. After all, this is a hallowed label that released the likes of Bikini Kill , The Melvins and Sleater-Kinney .
Alas, when I first put on the new album, the first sound I was met with was that piano sweep that made Nash popular when she first arrived on the scene. I was slightly disappointed but that’s on me - had I checked out her singles from the album, maybe I would.
