Culture | Music For the first time in six years, Kate Nash is releasing a new album, and despite the melancholy connotations of 9 Sad Symphonies’ title, the singer-songwriter seems in a good place. “I'm really confident in my powers,” she says. “My live show is like my number one thing where I'm like, I'm really f**king good at it.
” I meet Nash for coffee at one of her favourite cafés near Primrose Hill; the singer-songwriter is still giddy from staging an incredibly surreal gig inspired by The Wizard of Oz, The Sound of Music, and “old MGM studio Hollywood musicals” the night before. Maintaining a speaking speed of approximately 100mph throughout our conversation, Nash tells me all about the whimsical world she wanted to create, complete with spinning podiums, fake trees, and the heavily metaphorical window she climbs through to reach the stage when she finds the main door locked. “I always used to say during the Girl Talk era,” she says, referring back to the 2013 album she ended up funding out of her own pocket after parting ways with her former label.
“I'd always be like: well if they don't let you in the front door, there's always a window around the back that you can try. Gotta get in there somehow.” This resilient spirit runs through the singer’s new album, 9 Sad Symphonies – for which she signed to Kill Rock Stars, the cult US label best known for putting out music by alumni Bikini Kill, Gossip, and Sleater-Kinney.
The new album is a bright,.