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8.0
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The Irish Times
With its retro-pop feel (and despite its sardonic lyrical tone), My Best Friend Is You is an upbeat and invigorating collection – and a considerable step up from its predecessor
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8.0
11289
8.0 |
The Guardian
Laced with reverb and dissonance, I Just Love You More could be a product of New York's no-wave era
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8.0
11324
8.0 |
musicOMH
It's never anything other than compelling and demonstrates that, despite what a lot of people thought when she first appeared, that Kate Nash could well be around for a good few years yet
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7.8
11708
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Pitchfork
A set of distinctive, well-crafted songs that should strike a chord with self-deprecating teens and twentysomethings
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7.0
11401
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
It is fun - hook-filled fun at that - and while it’s hard to gauge how many people might love this record, only a singularly mean spirit could bring themselves to hate it
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7.0
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7.0 |
Rolling Stone
Nash is an oversharing spitfire who won't be ignored — not to mention a huge talent
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7.0
11260
7.0 |
The Digital Fix
Nash can be clumsy ("I hate it when I fall over" - 'Seagulls'), earnest and wide-eyed ("I want to see that race with all bicycles in France" - (' ...Guilt') and it's just incredibly entertaining
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7.0
11196
7.0 |
NME
It’s plum stuff and Nash generally proves remarkably adept at co-opting her magpie’s nest of influences
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6.0
11083
6.0 |
Mojo
Some might cringe, but Nash's public growing up is oddly touching. Print edition only
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6.0
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The Sunday Times
Patchy, then, but brilliant in parts
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6.0
11374
6.0 |
The Scotsman
These are affirmative times to be a female musician, but who would have pegged girl-next-door Kate Nash to be the one to inject some radicalism into the picture?
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6.0
11303
6.0 |
Daily Telegraph
It’s refreshing that Nash is branching out, but the album lacks coherence, jumping oddly from catchy pop tunes to screechy vocals
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6.0
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6.0 |
FasterLouder
You can’t say she hasn’t developed since Made of Bricks. She’s just developing in a different way and at a different rate than her counterparts
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6.0
11460
6.0 |
Eye Weekly
Doesn’t tread any new ground but is a solid pop record that’s simple in spirit
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5.0
12169
5.0 |
Under The Radar
Fans will continue to flock. Best friends or no, next time she needs to give them a few more reasons to stick around
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5.0
11051
5.0 |
The Observer
Full of sweet love for Nash's main squeeze, Ryan Jarman from the Cribs, and, spasmodically, for the indier-than-thou culture from which he hails. If only Nash had realised her good intentions with a little more guile
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4.0
11283
4.0 |
The Independent
The impression is of bite-sized, insubstantial thoughts, perhaps the way that lyrics are doomed to go in the Twitter era
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4.0
11084
4.0 |
Q
Falls over itself to broaden Nash's bard-of-the-piano template ... The No1 album-writing, Brit Award-winning creater of catchy pop ...appears to be present on only three songs. Print edition only
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4.0
11304
4.0 |
Evening Standard
If Nash was annoying before, at least she had some hits and hooks; this time it's just bland and irritating
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4.0
11308
4.0 |
The Times
If My Best Friend is You is meant to be the album that broadens her fanbase beyond teenage girls then it’s a small step in the right direction
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4.0
11328
4.0 |
Independent on Sunday
There's an intellect in there fighting to get out. More of that, please, and less of the Moon/June rubbish
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3.0
11254
3.0 |
The Fly
So bad in places it’s almost laughable
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2.0
11088
2.0 |
Uncut
A familiar mix of gauche live journal poetry, chopsticks piano and wall-of-tin girl group production. Print edition only
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