We Brave Bee Stings And All

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