YOU'LL love her or hate her and someone must because there has been such a demand for Kate Nash's new album Made of Bricks' that Fiction Records have brought forward the release date from mid-September to this week.

The last time an album was brought forward - by a week mind you - was The Arctic Monkeys and we all know what happened there .. so to bring one forward by eight weeks is something else so great things are obviously expected.

Britain's latest pop-punk-princess has won over legions of fans at concerts and festivals and her mantra is that music should be fun.

Be that as it may Kate, but do you have to curse so much all the way through?

She's a cockney lass cross between Lily Allen and Regina Spektor, and much of the time she talks her way through tracks rather than sings but beneath it all you can hear that there is a great voice there somewhere.

Her adolescent and full of attitude lyrics were apparently penned while resting up from a broken leg after failing to hold down an acting school place. So perhaps she has something to be angry about.. She then put her songs onto MySpace and everyone loved her!

Her piano and guitar work dominates much of the tracks and the garage band sound can be very catchy and the lyrics a very dry humour.

But with song titles S..t Song' and Dhead' (you must guess the rest - this is a family paper you know!) I can't see those charging up the singles charts, regardless of how good they may or may not be!

There are plenty of angry young singer songwriters out there and Nash's excellent single Foundations is the opener, after a short and quirky intro song' that is. And then there's follow-up single Mouthwash, catchy, at times upbeat and Pumpkin Soup stands out among the other tracks.

But at 20, perhaps its time Kate grew up quickly, forgot her youf angst and used that voice more productively.

And yes, the album is bound to be big - but it is by no means great.

Catch Kate Nash at Exeter Corn Exchange on October 20 and Bristol's Anson Rooms on November 10.