★★★★★
After spending the lion's share of her 20s pumping out and promoting albums, Thao Nguyen tethered herself to San Francisco for four years.
- www.austinchronicle.com
2013-10-03
★★★★★
After spending the lion's share of her 20s pumping out and promoting albums, Thao Nguyen tethered herself to San Francisco for four years.
- www.austinchronicle.com
2013-10-02
★★★★★
Front-woman Thao Nguyen is the creative-force behind the San Francisco-based folk-rockers The Get Down Stay Down (Adam Thompson on keys, bass and vocals is the 'backing band'). Having successfully plied her trade with the likes of Laura Veirs and The Decemberists producer Tucker Martine, the Virginian-born songstress here hooks up with Joanna Newsom on the country-tinged 'Kindness Be Conceived'...
- www.clashmusic.com
2013-02-04
★★★★★
Chances are that Thao Nguyen stutters and mumbles her way through real life just like the rest of us. Hand her a guitar or a banjo, however, and she's a butterfly collector of the emotions, seizing the most colourful, ragged scraps as they flutter past and deftly skewering them for posterity with the kind of sharp, glinting insights that most lesser mortals only come up with half an hour too late...
- drownedinsound.com
2010-02-12
★★★★★
The past few years have given us scores of adolescently
regressive males presented as pop culture heroes. In fact, it's become
something of a cliché even to note that movies and sitcoms typically pit schlumpy,
carefree, childlike guys against willful, no-fun, grown-up women. Depending on
whom you ask, Knocked Up managed to
find some middle ground between the two poles, but it seems to be an exception...
- www.pitchforkmedia.com
2009-02-16
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