When Jaz notices a Lego-haired red-head in leggings and an inadequately long T-shirt at an event six months ago, it takes the best part of the entire evening to work out who she is. Is she someone from a previous job? Is she an old uni acquaintance? As The Cribs' Ryan Jarman enters clutching his girlfriend's waist, Jaz enquires dumbstruck: "It can't be?! The one that's so "bitt-a" cos she sucks too many lemons?! She used to be so smiley... and floral." It was a preview for what's to come in the world of Kate Nash. Goodbye cutesy cockney ditties about make-up, Hello minimal lyrics and riot-grrrl punk.The as-yet-unreleased second album Crayon Full Of Colour is chronically titled but intriguingly produced by ex-Suede man Bernard Butler. Taken from it, the screechy razor-edged guitars and still screechier blood-stirring shrills of I Just Love You More owe less to her boyfriend's band and more to a certain collective from across the pond. The track is in the identical vein of the far superior be-bobbed, and Most Exalted Goddess of all things alternative, Karen O. Having heard little else of the album yet, Jaz is reluctant to comment overall but would suggest you just dig out last year's Yeah Yeah Yeahs' effort It's Blitz which was a no-brainer for our Best Of 2009 list and sets the standard probably far too high for such aspiring female art-rockers.
Jaz x
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