Kate Nash - 'Foundations'

Following double a-side 'Caroline’s A Victim' and 'Birds', Kate Nash, the strawberry blonde songstress capturing hearts on her tour goes for epic with next single 'Foundations'. When Gigwise says epic, it’s all relative to the keyboard-electronic simplicity of the Nash sound. Heartstrings plucked but causing considerable hurt. A cute three chord piano intro rapidly descends into opprobrium as Nash sings “you merely ape me in front of your friends”. This is not a happy relationship, and Nash doesn’t “give a shit”. The sound layers up, the piano speeds up and the deconstruction of being stuck with some bloke you no longer like, wanna tell to eff off, but just can’t yet.

The chorus will be sung a few times this summer as girls and boys turn to each other in their muddy festival tent enclaves and realise “my fingertips are holding on to the cracks in our foundations, and I know that I should let go but I can’t/every time we fight I know it’s not right/everytime you’re upset and I smile I know I should forget but I can’t”. Really it’s a classic big building confessional about a sinking relationship. It’s not that big, but it is just clever enough to get away with it. The cockney voice is charming and disarming, the video will make you fall in love with her and there’s the right amount of humour, “yeah intelligent input darling”. The no bullshit approach from Camp Nash is still a winning formula.

Released 25/06/07 on Fiction Records