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Mar 26, 201391[I'm] prouder, frankly, when this likable size 12 lets her voice crack all over the big fat scarewords "feminist" and "sexism" on an album that gets dissed for its simplistic songwriting as if that wasn't the point.
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Mar 5, 201380Unvarnished and unpredictable, then, but in the grand Slits/Raincoats tradition, Nash is no-one's little girl. [Apr 2013, p.74]
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Mar 5, 201380Without doubt, this is Kate's heartbreak album; candid in its inspiration, both musically and emotionally
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Mar 8, 201370Musically, she leaves things deliberately underwritten, rooted in bass or scratchy guitar as opposed to the shiny-shiny production of her earlier work. It lets the songs speak for themselves, though it does occasionally expose their flaws as well.
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Mar 5, 201370Thankfully, while Nash has moved to a more extroverted, aggressive sound, she hasn't sacrificed any of the personal, intimate lyrics that marked the best of her early songs.
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Mar 5, 201370An album that veers between the lush pop melodies of her last two LPs and a full-frontal riot grrrl assault.
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Mar 7, 201364It’s a little preachy and confessional, but there’s truth in most of what Nash sings about on Girl Talk, at least for the ladies in the room who are still figuring out how to be capital-A adults.
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Mar 7, 201360An audibly irked record.... Girl Talk has balls and tunes. [Apr 2013, p.88]
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Mar 5, 201358Girl Talk may be the album she’s always wanted to make, but fans of her older material may be left wanting.
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Mar 27, 201340Nash can't sing or rap--she tries to do both--and her tunes are anemic; her punk postures are borrowed from musicians smarter and more talented than she.
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Mar 12, 201340Much of this third album comes on like a bubblegum Breeders, sparsely arranged around Nash's spinal basslines. [Apr 2013, p.107]
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Mar 5, 201340there are occasions on Girl Talk when we get glimpses of what another, better Kate Nash indie rock album would have sounded like.... Unfortunately, moments such as these are the exception, not the rule, on Girl Talk.