Kate Nash is a BRIT Award-winning singer-songwriter, musician and actress known for her fearless approach to music and unapologetic storytelling. With a career spanning more than a decade, she has garnered critical acclaim for her chart-topping hits and her electrifying live performances.
Nearly twenty years into her ever-evolving career, Kate Nash, the award-winning British singer, songwriter, actress and activist based in London and Los Angeles, has seen it all. He has achieved great commercial success: debut in 2007. made of brickswith the hit single “Foundations”, it reached number 1 in the UK and spent seven months in the top 40; saw the darker side of the industry after being eliminated in 2012 after 2010 with the assistance of Bernard Butler. my best friend is Youforged her own path as a successful independent artist through 2013's punk-y. girl talk and 2018 Yesterday was foreverand starred in the hit HBO wrestling drama, GLOW.
It has also been the subject of an award-winning documentary, Kate Nash: underestimate the girland also co-created a musical, only gold, with Hamilton choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler. Oh, and she starred in that too. At just 36 years old, Nash isn't done changing shape yet; After signing to the legendary Kill Rock Stars label, whose alumni include Nash favorites Elliott Smith and Sleater-Kinney, in early 2024, he will release his fifth album. 9 sad symphoniesin June.
Inspired by old Hollywood, old musicals and a desperate search to find beauty in a rotten world, it is another sonic departure after his recent production “rage”. “It had to be cinematic and dreamlike” Nash says of the 10-track album (the title is both a joke and an ode to achieving achievable goals when creativity falls apart). As for sonic changes, it's simply second nature: “I do things based on what I feel at that moment and what inspires me.” she explains. That moment in the album's creation was driven by two things; her work in only gold and a global pandemic that curtailed filming on GLOW's fourth season and sent Nash—and everyone—into a tailspin. After a period of lying in bed watching zombie movies, the creativity began to arrive in the fall and winter of 2020, with songs being worked on well into 2021.
While the album was finished in late 2021, Nash wasn't sure what to do with it. Freed from the typical record industry framework (no manager, no label, no booking agents), he did two things: He went on tour in 2022, which was rejuvenating, and he joined TikTok. Her first post was a timeline of her extraordinary career, which ended with her questioning the best way to release the new album (some of the songs, including “Misery,” “Wasteman,” and “Horsie,” had already begun shipping. ). emerge without label).
That first post went viral, leading to an influx of offers from labels and managers, creating a scenario that Nash had been in before, dealing with some of the shadiest characters in the industry. However, one label has been interested for some time. “Kill Rock Stars had been chasing me for two years. They had been checking for a while and saying 'we noticed the album hasn't come out, we really love it'”. Once Nash got a great new manager, loose ends were tied up and the album was ready for release.
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DECEMBER 17, 2024
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