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Track four on the album, 'Dickhead,' is a distinct change of direction, and premiered on Kate's MySpace page. 'Dickhead' illustrates the unquestionable synergy that has sparkled between Kateand producer Paul Epworth (The Futureheads, Maximo Park, The Rapture, Bloc Party). Dickhead transforms Kate from urban punk poet to bluesy, torch song singing Nina Simone. Even more surprising is the acknowledgement from Kate that the song is in fact directed at a girl; a two fingered salute to those who accuse Kate of rampant feminist vitriol.

Track five, 'Birds,' was originally heard in demo form on the B-side to Kate's debut indie single, 'Caroline's A Victim''Birds' is Kate's charming take on tongue-tied, lopsided declarations of love issued forth between two kids, probably on some park bench somewhere in deepest suburbia.

Halfway through the album is 'We Get On,' the 'tea and sympathy' song of modern times. 'We Get On painfully' pinpoints the perils and humiliation of the teenage crush; the universal story of unrequited love, but here set to a 50's girl-group soundtrack.

Track seven is the brilliant and dark 'Mariella;' Kate's self-contained savant alter-ego, the little girl who takes a Pritt Stick and glues her lips together. As cartoonish and twisted as anything from the imagination of Tim Burton, the song culminates with a cacophony of home-grown studio sound effects, scrunched crisp packets and jumping up and down on wooden chairs to create a tantrum of sound.
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