Live Review: Kate Nash at Popscene, 01/12/08

Live Review: Kate Nash at Popscene, 01/12/08

Review: Kate Nash follows Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse to Popscene: Aidin Vaziri | There's a very good reason Kate Nash is everywhere you turn these days, from magazines and blogs to late-night talk shows and MTV. It's early winter, and there's absolutely nothing else going on in pop music. Not that the 20-year-old British singer-songwriter isn't entirely worthy of all the attention. But it wasn't until close to the end of her hourlong set that Nash and her scruffy four-piece band finally began to validate the hype with a handful of songs that skillfully skewered ex-boyfriends while bouncing gloriously on wobbly beats and perky piano melodies. "Foundations" and "Mouthwash" are near-perfect pop tunes, with towering choruses and true sentiments: "My fingertips are holding onto/ The cracks in our foundation/ And I know that I should let go, but I can't." Because she's so young, you know she means it when she sings about the end of a relationship like it's the end of the world. You just wonder that if given more time, she could have come up with more songs like that. And then you wonder if you'll even remember her name in March. Continue reading.