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 m...   [ 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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