If you were to base your knowledge of indie music based on 8Asians.com posts, you’d think that every Asian American indie artist just sang sweetly with a guitar: Marié Digby and Priscilla Ahn, for example. And while there’s absolutely nothing wrong with a girl and her guitar, let it be known that Thao Nguyen is definitely a change-up, in a very good way.
I won’t lie - I just found her music a couple of minutes ago on MP3 blog stereogum, and I now have her two tracks Beat (Health, Life and Fire) and Chivalry playing over and over again. Her last.fm profile says that she’s “a Vietnamese-American folk singer-songwriter out of Virginia. She’s signed to [indie rock label] Kill Rock Stars, and she is currently touring.”
I’m trying to find a way to properly describe her sound, but as I’m having a surprisingly difficult time describing it, I’ll simply point you to the links above where you can take a listen for yourself. Now if you excuse me, I’m going to publish this post so I can listen to this song some more.
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courageous kiwi wrote:
I really liked that one song. More samples?
Posted on 12-Nov-07 at 1:40 pm | Permalink
Ernie wrote:
Yes! You can find two more MP3’s off of the blog post at stereogum:
http://www.stereogum.com/archives/mp3/new-thao-nguyen-beat-health-life-and-fire-stereogu.html
Posted on 12-Nov-07 at 2:00 pm | Permalink
courageous kiwi wrote:
Beat kind of reminds me of While My Guitar Gently Weeps from the Beatles.
If you’re going to do another post about Asian artists, I think one of the most underrated Asian artists is Roy Kim (http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=19503272&blogID=215731229).
Posted on 12-Nov-07 at 3:20 pm | Permalink
Jesse! wrote:
Thao is great! Saw her at the bicycle music festival in Dolores Park. She has lots of energy when she sings and gets you really into the music. I took a couple/three pictures.
http://community.webshots.com/user/tryturkey/tags/thao/photos
Posted on 13-Nov-07 at 1:28 pm | Permalink
Phil wrote:
shes’s somewhere between Cat Power & Edie Brickell
Posted on 05-Dec-07 at 12:10 pm | Permalink
Hooch wrote:
her album is going to be huge! You can already pre-order and listen to samples at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/We-Brave-Bee-Stings-All/dp/B000ZOSMYC/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1200335229&sr=8-1
Posted on 14-Jan-08 at 10:29 am | Permalink