please note!-
This is a Nellie fan page- the real Nellie Mckay is somewhat technologically challenged and would of course also be listed in myspace music....
yes the same one the deluxe disc has on its dvd portion-
I was there!
what Entertainment Weekly says:
"Combine luxe jazz vocalist Julie London with a rapper and you'll get a sense of this unique singer-songwriter's charm. McKay crafts piano-based standards that bristle with smart, thorny lyrics and address everything from cloning to pet adoption, and she delivers them with lingering languor, then rat-a-tat bravado. Sophisticated stuff even for a music vet; truly stunning considering McKay is only 19. Her tart and sparkling two-disc debut will surely challenge mainstream mind-sets, but that's okay: There's more than enough predictable fare out there for idle worshippers. grade A "
a sample of the 4 Star Rolling Stone review:
"In Nellie McKay's cabaret, would-be show tunes mingle with rock, pop, disco, reggae, blaxploitation grooves and anything else this effusive prankster can spew out of her untethered imagination. Comparisons to fellow music-school dropout Norah Jones are inevitable, but the British-born, Harlem-raised songwriter answers them with droll wit (remember the title of Jones' debut?) and restless chutzpah.... McKay mixes pathos and goofiness with egghead glee. Most cabaret is weepy: McKay trades its tears for a wink."
a sample of The New York Times Magazine article:
"No one -- from The New Republic to Time Out New York to Variety to The Washington Post to New York magazine to Entertainment Weekly to concert reviewers around the nation -- seems to have much uncertainty about McKay's talent and originality or her personal appeal. ''Invigorating . . . bracing,'' said People magazine; ''supremely gifted, charming and darkly funny,'' said The Washington Post; a ''rich mix of purity and pathos,'' said The Onion. She is like a reverse prism that takes light from everywhere, musically and socially and politically, and coalesces it into a single unique sensibility. (It's no wonder that the musical comparisons are so numerous.)"
what MTV.com says:
"Ms. McKay is truly one of a kind: So eclectic is this 20-year-old singer-pianist that her debut album couldn't be confined to a single disc. The double album Get Away From Me finds the brash, sassy, free-thinking and musically dexterous McKay dabbling in jazz, cabaret, pop and show tunes; and if that's not enough, this girl packs raps to rival Eminem. And if that's not enough, a recent show found her singing songs in German, Spanish and Japanese."
a sample of Blender Magazine's 4 star review:
"Listening to the wildly zany (two-disc!) debut of Nellie McKay, 19, a fearless singer-songwriter-pianist whose jangling music evokes a mixture of Gilbert & Sullivan, Elvis Costello and Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, is like running a marathon in a cloudburst. Brash as they come, McKay drenches you in her ideas......I Wanna Get Married, arguably the finest of the album's 18 songs, is a deadpan ;50s-style come-on cooed in the voice of a caffeinated Julie London: ;I wanna pack cute little lunches for my Brady bunches, then read Danielle Steele, she sneers sweetly. The beauty of McKay's singing and the sexy tug of her jazz phrasing transform an expression of contempt into something deeper and more ambivalent. McKay is one of those talents who leave you holding your breath in anticipation of what could be next."
Some Nellie Mckay Tunes
(this section is obviously under construction so just chill while i work the bugs out)
Pretty Little Head: Cupcake, live at the Aldrich Museum
Pretty Little Head: Columbia is Bleeding
Get Away From Me: Manhattan Avenue, live at the Aldrich Museum
Get Away From Me: David, live at the Aldrich Museum
Get Away From Me: I Wanna Get Married, live at the Aldrich Museum
All material copyright Nellie Mckay- Thanks to Alex and the fabulous nelliemckay.org
Dropping January 3rd, 2006!
