Thao & the Get Down Stay Down

Thao & the Get Straight down Stay Down can be an indie pop music group led with the distinctive-voiced Thao Nguyen, whose songwriting tends toward the musically playful and lyrically heavy-hearted. Elevated in the town of Falls Cathedral, Virginia, Nguyen used your guitar and songwriting being a pre-teen, and was component of a country-pop duo in senior high school. In 2005, she released a single album, Just like the Linen, which uncovered her relatively raspy, punky tone of voice and folky indie pop design. She eventually collaborated about the same with tUnE-yArDs’ Merrill Garbus beneath the name Merrillthaocracy, and produced Thao & the Obtain Down Stay Down with Just like the Linen manufacturer Frank Stewart and her fellow University of William and Mary learners Adam and Willis Thompson (no relationship) in 2006. The music group enlisted Tucker Martine (Mudhoney, the Decemberists) to create We Daring Bee Stings, released in the Wipe out Rock Superstars label in 2008. It had been accompanied by a Nguyen single cooperation with labelmates Portland Cello Task and Justin Power known as The Thao & Justin Power Periods, and then another Thao & the Obtain Down Stay Down record, Know Better Find out Faster, both in ’09 2009. The last mentioned was produced without Stewart but highlighted guests including Andrew Parrot and Jenny Conlee (the Decemberists). Having relocated to SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, Nguyen released the 2011 record Thao & Mirah, a task with her vocalist/songwriter friend Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn that was co-produced by Garbus. Marking her primary band’s proceed to Ribbon Music, another Obtain Down Stay Down record, We the normal, implemented in 2013, this time around without Willis Thompson. It had been made by John Congleton and once again involved many guests, including Midlake’s Paul Alexander and McKenzie Smith. With established membership right down to Nguyen and Adam Thompson, the group’s non-etheless especially muscular 4th recording, Man Alive, was made by Merrill Garbus. It showed up via Ribbon Music in March 2016.