Kate Nash “I Just Love You More”
On her critically acclaimed 2007 debut Made of Bricks, indie-pop singer-songwriter Kate Nash got plenty of mileage out of her winning, Lily Allen-esque mix of the sweet and the sour (the sweet being her cutesy, sing-talk delivery and the album’s surplus of perky, piano-pop melodies; the sour being colorful lyrics anchored in titles like “Dickhead” and “Shit Song” that called out sucky boyfriends).
For “I Just Love You More” though, an early taste of her forthcoming sophomore effort My Best Friend Is You (and an obvious by-product of her days playing bass and singing in the punk-based side project The Receeders), there’s little traces of sugary sweetness found in it’s initially shocking riot grrl assault of thrashing guitar and screaming yelps.
As feedback-clouded axe work paint a dark and Hell-ish ambiance around her, Nash spews “I just love you more/ I just love you more…than anything” over and over, her vocals growing more and more intense in each repeating until she reaches an orgasmic peak of furor, her obsessive adoration far too powerful a force to keep bottled in any longer.
A bit creepy? Yes. A little too unrefined? Sure (it registers more as a sketch of a tune than an actual full-bodied song). But if judged without taking into consideration the far different sound of Nash’s previous album (as difficult as that may be), it actually works, sufficiently handling the riotous, Karen O-inspired mood it’s obviously going for. We just don’t know if we could handle an entire full length of such an extreme about-face, if that’s indeed what Kate has planned.
We’ll see when the rest of My Best Friend Is You arrives in April.
DL: “I Just Love You More” (alt)
Bonus DL: Kate Nash “I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You (Black Kids Cover)” (alt)
