Kate Nash: 9 Sad Symphonies (baby pink vinyl, signed in store at Kops Queen, November 9, 2026) [KILL ROCK STARS]

Why you'll love it

We were lucky enough to have Kate Nash drop by Kops Queen to film a "What's In My Bag" with us the day of her Toronto show, and she signed copies of 9 Sad Symphonies while she was in the store. Her fifth album and her first on Kill Rock Stars, it sets her sharp, slice-of-life songwriting against sweeping strings, for fans of Made of Bricks-era Nash and old Hollywood musicals alike.

This edition

• Hand-signed by Kate Nash in store at Kops Queen St. W
• Baby pink vinyl
• Printed inner sleeve
• Poster insert

About the album

Kate Nash made 9 Sad Symphonies with no label and no manager, which is quite the plot twist for the woman whose 2007 debut Made of Bricks went to number one in the UK. She wrote it between 2020 and 2021 with Danish producer Frederik Thaae, her collaborator on the musical Only Gold, trading ideas over Zoom and putting singles out whenever the mood struck. "Misery" came first, a lockdown song; "Horsie," a country number with a video shot at the Grand Canyon, followed; then "Wasteman," a breakup anthem that starts soft on piano and goes full disco halfway through, with Danny Dyer in the video.

The album found its home in 2024, when Kill Rock Stars (the American indie behind Bikini Kill and Sleater-Kinney) signed her after one of her TikTok videos about her career went viral. Thaae's strings, harpsichord and choir give the record the old Hollywood sweep the label promised, wrapped around songs about losing and finding motivation ("Millions of Heartbeats"), heartache ("Abandoned") and a first date spent watching Kubrick ("Space Odyssey 2001").

The title is half a joke and half a promise: ten songs, nine of them sad, which by our count leaves one for the drive home.

"Nobody does slice-of-life ennui as devastatingly as Nash."
Ed Power, The i Paper

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Tracklist

Listen

On Kill Rock Stars (cat# LP-KRS-801C), first out in 2024.