★★★★★
Nellie McKay championed the work of Doris Day on her last album, Normal as Blueberry Pie. Day's reputation as a ditzy blonde virgin in a number of successful Hollywood films in the early '60s led many to forget her musical achievements during the previous two decades. McKay, who physically resembles Day and shares a passion for animal rights, revealed the depth and seriousness of Day's musical talents by remaking the songs with imaginative arrangements and careful attention to detail...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Nellie McKay Home Sweet Mobile Home Verve 2010 Singer and multi-instrumentalist Nellie McKay seems to need a break. Not from music-making, mind you, but from the toils of existing within a bump and drive world that has little time for reflection or respite, and none, seemingly, to worry about repeating yesterday's mistakes. With any luck, McKay, that spunky champion of the underdog, was far away, basking in island breezes when the recent US election day broke...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-11-22
★★★★★
From the moment Get Away From Me kicks into the off-kilter blue beat of David, it's clear Nellie McKay is no Matrix massaged 19-year-old pop poser. Not to suggest she lacks attitude. The London-born, New York-based piano wunderkind is a fast talking, hard rhyming, playfully cutthroat chanteuse with a penchant for speaking her mind: think Tom Lehrer, Chuck D, Kate Bush and Sarah Vaughan holed up in Abbey Road studios spitballing ideas for an hour...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Is Nellie McKay losing her edge, or is she just feeling blue? Just a few short years after her debut, which she recorded as a precociously talented and knowing young woman, she sounds a bit weary on her fifth full-length, the scattered and distracted Home Sweet Mobile Home...
- pitchfork.com
2010-10-15
★★★★★
Nellie McKay championed the work of Doris Day on her last album, Normal as Blueberry Pie. Day's reputation as a ditzy blonde virgin in a number of successful Hollywood films in the early '60s led many to forget her musical achievements during the previous two decades. McKay, who physically resembles Day and shares a passion for animal rights, revealed the depth and seriousness of Day's musical talents by remaking the songs with imaginative arrangements and careful attention to detail...
- www.popmatters.com
2010-10-02
★★★★★
If only she were brunette, twentysomething multi-instrumentalist/singer-songwriter/vegan Nellie McKay would be the unchallenged apex of my (living) celebrity crush list. She's clinging tenaciously to the upper rungs as it is, her status abetted by the fact that one's attraction toward her need not be experienced or expressed as prurience. Much like Cole Porter, her quirky turns of phrase and insidiously catchy jazz chords sketch a feisty, urban milieu oozing refined sexuality...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2010-09-24
★★★★★
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- spin.com
2010-08-25
★★★★★
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- spin.com
2010-08-25
★★★★★
Ah, the precocious girls of New York?wandering around the Village in tweed coats and riding boots, hoping open mic night at the poetry slam will grant them their birthright of fame. These Gotham babies are fixtures in the era of Fiona Apple and Alicia Keys, but nobody rocks the persona quite as zealously as 23-year-old Nellie McKay...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
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