Made of Bricks
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| Studio album by Kate Nash | ||||
| Released | 6 August 2007 | |||
| Genre | Indie pop | |||
| Length | 55:40 | |||
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Fiction (UK) Cherrytree (US) Universal Music (International) |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 71/100 |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
| Drowned in Sound | 4/10 |
| Entertainment Weekly | B |
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| The New York Times |  |
| Pitchfork | 5.5/10 |
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| Robert Christgau | A— |
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Made of Bricks is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter Kate Nash, released in the United Kingdom on 6 August 2007 by Fiction Records, Cherrytree Records, and the Universal Music Group. The album was a commercial success, topping the UK Albums Chart and spawning a number-two single in the form of the lead single "Foundations". The album was later released in Europe on 10 September and in the United States on 18 September 2007.
Nash stated in an October 2007 interview for The Village Voice that she wrote all the songs on the album a year and a half before, except for "Skeleton Song", which she had written the same year that the album came out.
The album was released five weeks earlier than originally planned due to the popularity of "Foundations". The album does not contain the track "Caroline's a Victim", which was released as a limited 7" single, double A-Side with "Birds" on Moshi Moshi Records before "Foundations". "Birds" was included on the album.
A version that included a "making of" DVD was available at Best Buy on the album's release in the United States. In that country, Made of Bricks debuted at number 36 on the Billboard 200 with sales of 16,000.
Initial critical response to Made of Bricks was positive. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 71, based on 23 reviews.
All tracks written by Kate Nash, except where stated.
^shipments figures based on certification alone
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