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Your new BFF

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Kate Nash is the best pal you’ll ever have. Just don’t get between her and a man, call her crazy or lie to her face, and you’ll be gravy.

On Nash’s sophomore effort, “My Best Friend Is You,” the London-bred ivory tickler brings the cuteness and laces it with arsenic.

On the lead single, “Do-Wah-Doo,” she declares about a sideline hoe, “Well, I think she’s a bitch!”

The disc is decidedly ironic in that way. The titles of songs such as “Kiss That Grrrl,” “Early Christmas Present” and “Mansion Song” lead one to believe they have something to do with a first kiss, Santa Claus and doll houses, respectively.

Instead, each of these tunes deal with jealousy, contempt and sexual abuse. In that respect, the album possesses a much darker tone than her less explicit debut, “Made of Bricks.”

This album’s sound is a refreshingly clever concoction of 1950s girl-group sass, ‘70s garage punk and new-age Riot Grrrl pop.

But I guess that’s why we are Kate’s BFFs. She confides in us what she wouldn’t dare tell her mother. 

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