More good music: Thao Nguyen

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.