'Girl Talk' is the sound of Kate Nash, stretching her wings and just pleasing herself.
At 15 tracks, Girl Talk is probably a quarter hour too long as well - it just doesn’t have the ideas to sustain itself.
An album that veers between the lush pop melodies of her last two LPs and a full-frontal riot grrrl assault.
She’s still all over the map when it comes to style but it mostly works on Girl Talk
If Nash had called it quits after “Rap For Rejection” (yes, she does rap, and it’s actually not that bad), Girl Talk would have been much better off. At 15 songs and 52 minutes, it’s far too long.
Girl Talk may be the album she’s always wanted to make, but fans of her older material may be left wanting.
Girl Talk’s main problem is that its songs are not, on the whole, any good.
It’s a Kate Nash album, so obviously I’m going to like it, but this is definitely my least favorite of her albums. It’s weird and so very Kate, but it’s just not as good as her previous records. Some songs are definitely favorites of mine, but it’s lacking in the bite of her earlier works and instead feels kind of forced at times.
<3 Fri-end?, Sister, OMYGOD!, Conventional Girl
TOP 5 Tracks
-Sister
-Fri-end?
-OMYGOD!
-Death Proof
-and its a tie between 'Part Heart' and 'You're So Cool, I'm So Freaky'
the worst songs are 'All Talk' and 'Cherry Pickin, too loud and noisy.
i didn't like 'Conventional Girl' either, the beginning of the song was good but it got too screamy.
1 | Part Heart 3:07 | |
2 | Fri-end? 3:32 | |
3 | Death Proof 2:23 | |
4 | Are You There Sweetheart? 4:28 | |
5 | Sister 4:18 | |
6 | OMYGOD! 2:57 | |
7 | Oh 4:22 with Siobhan Malhotra | |
8 | All Talk 3:25 | |
9 | Conventional Girl 4:25 | |
10 | 3AM 3:31 | |
11 | Rap For Rejection 2:18 | |
12 | Cherry Pickin 3:00 | |
13 | Labyrinth 3:29 | |
14 | You're So Cool, I'm So Freaky 3:17 | |
15 | Lullaby For An Insomniac 3:52 |