Kate Nash - Freedom of Me EP (2026) [Hi-Res]

British singer-songwriter Kate Nash has released a new single, “Freedom Of Me,” the herald of her album “Cailín,” which honours her Irish heritage and is due on January 22nd on the independent label Kill Rock Stars. The track is stripped back to the bone: Nash’s piercing voice is accompanied only by a solitary tin whistle, a characteristic instrument of Irish traditional music.

The song deals with womanhood, free speech and sexual abuse, asking what is needed to secure personal independence. Nash criticises the American cult of free speech that has spread worldwide through social media, calling it a lie that the far right guards especially jealously. In her view, the right of women and trans people to live free from violence and rape, with access to healthcare without political debate, matters more than absolute free speech, while the right to protest remains fundamental. She endorses British laws that restrict speech: the Public Order Act 1986, the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006, the Online Safety Act 2023 and Scotland’s Hate Crime and Public Order Act 2021.

The immediate spark was the Channel 4 Dispatches documentary “Russell Brand: In Plain Sight” and the reaction to it online and on air: distrust of women, mockery, anger and then boredom, along with the feigned “shock” of staff at major TV corporations. Nash was also affected by hearings of the Covid inquiry into the Conservative Party, where men in power used openly misogynistic language. The song’s release coincides with the week of Brand’s trial and news about the “Cornell 7,” and the singer bitterly notes that the song will always remain relevant.


Tracklist:
1. Kate Nash - Freedom of Me
2. Kate Nash - Spilt Milk
3. Kate Nash - Famine