Kate Nash sets Cailín for January with Spilt Milk

Kate Nash has set her sixth studio album, *Cailín*, for release on 22 January 2027 via Kill Rock Stars. She announced it on 17 September with the lead single *Spilt Milk*, a track that puts reproductive rights and bodily autonomy at the centre of the campaign.

Written over eleven years and produced by KoOoLkOjAk, *Cailín* was recorded at Stiúideo Cuan on Ireland's west coast with traditional musician Charlie Lennon. The sessions fold Irish instrumentation into punk, hip-hop and pop. Nash has framed the album as a celebration of her Irish heritage. The tracklist also carries her 2026 cover of Sinéad O’Connor’s *Famine*, placing that reading inside a wider body of new work rather than as a one-off tribute.

On *Spilt Milk* she has been direct. The song, she said, was first written about abortion law in Ireland before the repeal of the Eighth Amendment. After the overturning of Roe v Wade, she added that "this song feels pertinent to today" and that it asks "why the female voice is so ignored". The single lands as both the first taste of *Cailín* and a statement of the ground the album is prepared to hold.

From Made of Bricks to the west coast

That stance sits in a career that has never been short of plain speech. Nash broke through in 2007 with the single *Foundations* and the debut album *Made of Bricks*, a sharp, conversational set that made her one of the defining British voices of that year. *My Best Friend Is You* followed in 2010. Later records kept shifting the frame: the 2024 album *9 Sad Symphonies* and the 2025 *GERM* singles, including the High Road Sessions cut taped live on Inishbofin, had already pointed towards Irish stages and a looser, more live-edged sound. Soundtrack work such as *Coffee Wars* in 2023 sat alongside the songwriting. *Cailín* is the fullest step yet into that Irish material, not a sudden turn but the long accumulation of eleven years' writing finally given a studio shape.

The choice of Stiúideo Cuan and of Charlie Lennon as a collaborator makes the geography concrete. Traditional playing is not decoration here; it is written into the grain of songs that still carry the punk snap and pop hooks that have marked Nash since *Made of Bricks*. Kill Rock Stars, the label releasing it, fits a catalogue that has always sat more comfortably with independent channels than with major-label polish. The O’Connor cover underlines the lineage she is claiming: Irish song as argument as much as melody.

Derry this weekend, the album in January

The announcement is not only a record date. Nash is due on stage at Other Voices Derry on 25 and 26 September 2026, the opening stretch of an Irish run that continues into February 2027. For an album cut on Ireland's west coast and built around heritage and autonomy, those dates read as part of the same move rather than a separate live add-on: the songs go straight back onto Irish stages while the studio set is still months from the shops.

What remains is the January release itself. *Spilt Milk* is out; *Cailín* is locked for 22 January 2027 on Kill Rock Stars; the Derry shows bookend the last days of September before the wider Irish dates carry her into the new year. Eleven years of writing, a west-coast session with a trad player, a lead single that refuses to soften its subject, and a winter album date: that is the shape of the campaign as it stands today.