Kate Nash: Pumpkin Soup
Artist: Kate Nash
Track: Pumpkin Soup
Rating: * * *
Here, the owner of the broadest shoulders outside of the England rugby team surprises all by not releasing a single that can be wittily reviewed just by changing the first letter of her surname. Taking a leaf from the one-paged book of Mark Ronson (“Hey guys, wouldn’t it be CRAZY if we used trumpets on this one?”), most of the song is taken up by the quite terrifying prospect of Ms. Nash ordering some unfortunate to lay one on her. If you manage to avoid hearing this with the obligatory “Maybe deaf people don’t have it so bad” frequency, with which it will undoubtedly be played on Radio 1 and the Topshop stereo, then it’s a reasonably enjoyable, and enjoyably short, three minute pop song.
