Thao and the ever-versatile Get Down Stay Down (Adam Thompson on bass, keys and additional guitar, and Willis Thompson on drums and percussion) return with the follow up to their critically lauded and riotously applauded previous album, 'We Brave Bee Stings and All', the breakout success and best-selling record of 2008 for Kill Rock Stars. With super-producer and friend Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Bill Frisell, Spoon) again at the helm, Know Better Learn Faster perfectly captures the band as their mo   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Insound Staff Pick - 2008! While her music feels buoyant, even giddy at times, Thao Nguyen endows her lyrics with a curious juxtaposition of gripping personal detail and saucy humor. This is a subtly powerful album concerned with admissions of guilt, life revelations, and failed domesticity. "Packs a subtle punch, sweet but not sappy" - Spin. "Virginia native Nguyen can make torture sound joyful" - Magnet. "One hundred percent pop loveliness" - The Fader.

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Insound Staff Pick - 2008! These eleven diverse tracks make for a subtly powerful album concerned with admissions of guilt, life revelations, and failed domesticity. Thao Nguyen's music feels buoyant, even giddy at times, yet she endows her lyrics with a curious juxtaposition of gripping personal detail and saucy humor. "Nguyen's pop flourishes seem much less like the evolution of a sound than they do the fleshing out of a personality that was already there" - Prefixmag.com

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These eleven diverse tracks make for a subtly powerful album concerned with admissions of guilt, life revelations, and failed domesticity. Thao Nguyen's music feels buoyant, even giddy at times, yet she endows her lyrics with a curious juxtaposition of gripping personal detail and saucy humor. 'Nguyen's pop flourishes seem much less like the evolution of a sound than they do the fleshing out of a personality that was already there' - Prefixmag.com

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Making her debut for Kill Rock Stars, 23-year-old Virginian songwriter Thao has been racking up comparisons to Cat Power, based partially on her voice, but also because there aren't too many bluesy female singer-songwriters out there in the indie rock universe. In fairness to both parties there really isn't much evidence to support such claims: Thao's writing has a far more upbeat feel to it, often to the point where it becomes a knockabout bar-room romp. However approachable this record's tone might be, th   [ read more ]

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