Due for Release 22nd January 2027 via Kill Rock Stars
CD / Hazel LP / Indies Hawthorn LP / Dinked Edition No. 442 LP
Dinked Exclusive:
“Rowan” Pink & Grey vinyl
11” x 17” signed print
Sticker set
Gatefold Jacket with lyrics
Printed inner sleeve
Limited, numbered pressing 700
Eleven years in the making, Kate Nash’s sixth studio album Cailín is a love letter to her Irish heritage. Produced by KoOoLkOjAk and recorded on the west coast of Ireland at Stiúideo Cuan, under the watchful eye of pioneering trad musician Charlie Lennon, Cailín is a raw, raucous album combining traditional Irish sounds with punk energy, nods to hip hop production and Nash’s knack for a killer hook. “This was my first music,” says Nash, who grew up in an Irish community in North Harrow, where she attended a Catholic school.
When visiting her mother’s “loving, vibrant Irish family” in Ireland every summer, she found that music infused the fabric of life in a way that felt natural and instinctive. “All my earliest musical memories were in Ireland: live music in the pub, going to Sharon Shannon gigs, seeing the best accordion player you’ve ever seen and it’s a bored-looking eight-year-old boy in a puffer jacket. There’s a real respect for musicians.”
Marrying punk protest songs with a joyful celebration of trad music, Cailín explores themes of colonialism, inequality, religion, internalised shame and forgiveness and family, drawing on the rich texture of Irish folklore and mythology. The tradition of strong Irish women is at the heart of the record, from the young girls celebrated on the “90s grunge eyeroll” of title track ‘Cailín’, to the resourceful single mother navigating the housing crisis in ‘Póg Mo Thóin’ (“There’s all these politicians arguing with each other on news programmes, then you cut to people’s real life and it’s like, can’t you just fucking help them?”), to Nash’s grandmother, memorialised in the poignant yet joyful ‘Irish Saints’.
Side A
I Guess I Never Learnt A Thing
Cailín
Freedom of Me
Famine
Side B
Spilt Milk
Wild Atlantic Way
Crying
Irish Saints
Side C
Póg Mo Thóin
Lady Gregory
Pay Up
Christmas Eve
Side D - Etched
For Fans of: Sleater-Kinney, Wet Leg, Fiona Apple, The Linda Lindas.