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Thao Nguyen is back with Show Me, her sixth album and first without her longtime band Thao & The Get Down Stay Down. Co-produced by Nguyen, Eli Crews and longtime friends Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner of Tune-Yards, the record includes features from Neko Case, The Linda Lindas and super collaborator Adrian Quesada. Add in flourishes from Garbus and Brenner throughout, and there's nuggets to savor.
Raised in Virginia by Vietnamese refugee parents who fled the Vietnam War, Nguyen has built a career around adventurous and unexpected arrangements. On Show Me, there is a revealing side to Nguyen on the other side of divorce, navigating a new life and the possibilities of starting over. The opening song, “Fossils,” touches on the fact that old habits, relationships and familiar ways can become relics of another life.
“Sick of the Times” with The Linda Lindas seems written directly from my brain — a blend of frustration and a need and desire to just get out on the dance floor and work those problems out through movement. “Take It Easy” comes closest to the energy of Thao's We the Common era while "Jeans/Genes" is a humorous riff on wordplay that is definitely not ready for radio.
An album worth an entire listen, Show Me is KAXE’s Album of the Week. -KH
Raised in Virginia by Vietnamese refugee parents who fled the Vietnam War, Nguyen has built a career around adventurous and unexpected arrangements. On Show Me, there is a revealing side to Nguyen on the other side of divorce, navigating a new life and the possibilities of starting over. The opening song, “Fossils,” touches on the fact that old habits, relationships and familiar ways can become relics of another life.
“Sick of the Times” with The Linda Lindas seems written directly from my brain — a blend of frustration and a need and desire to just get out on the dance floor and work those problems out through movement. “Take It Easy” comes closest to the energy of Thao's We the Common era while "Jeans/Genes" is a humorous riff on wordplay that is definitely not ready for radio.
An album worth an entire listen, Show Me is KAXE’s Album of the Week. -KH
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