Monica Burton - 01/Jun/2009  ?We Brave Bee Stings and All? is the second album from Thao, full name Thao Nguyen, a singer and songwriter with an unusual, soulful voice. Each one o...
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Darren Carle - 14/Feb/2008  Another day, another female singer-songwriter likened to Cat Power. Maybe in some respects, but Virginia-bred Thao Nguyen sounds a rather more care-fr...
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Stephen M. Deusner - 05/Feb/2008  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 clich&e...
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| Brandon Bussolini - 04/Feb/2008 Thao Nguyen writes and sings very catchy, knowing songs with artful, oblique lyrics. This might be a definition for the indie-pop genre itself, that v...
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Zach Schonfeld - 01/Feb/2008  It was Lucinda Williams who cleverly quipped that the finest songs “sound happy but are so sad”; Thao Nguyen (who ditched the tongue-twisting surname ...
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John Zeiss - 29/Jan/2008  A generation of girlish singer-songwriters is blooming in the United Kingdom, but the new female talent sprouting stateside is a little older, a littl...
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| JON YOUNG - 09/Jan/2008 Sweet but not sappy, Nguyen's inviting folk pop has some of Jolie Holland's woozy swagger, a pinch of Beth Orton's genteel grace, and endless reserves...
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