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Feb 4, 2013She's turned in her most mature work and coincidentally some of her most enjoyable.
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Oct 4, 2013We The Common finally reflects that sense of place, stretching nuance and bringing the only brand of folk that metropolitan California allows: one laden with pop hooks.
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Feb 4, 2013Catchy melodies abound in an eclectic, engaging effort.
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Feb 8, 2013It’s certainly a more political-leaning album for the outfit, but one that sweats with fresh optimism.
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Feb 7, 2013Save for a few tweaks, she doesn’t go to great lengths to expand upon the musical formula that’s served her to date.
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Feb 5, 2013This is Nguyen's strongest work yet, with the aforementioned songwriting taking a leap forward, while gradually perfecting her melting pot sound of country, folk and pop.
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Apr 12, 2013We The Common, the fifth LP offering from San Francisco’s Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, offers us a killer collection of infectious beats, bouncy melodies and smart lyrics that you can’t help but move to.
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MojoFeb 6, 2013A bit shambolic, then, but Thao has enough charisma to sustain hearing it all in one sitting. [Mar 2013, p.98]
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Feb 11, 2013It’s all lovely stuff, but the darkness within my soul says it’s maybe too lovely.
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Feb 21, 2013Even when duetting with harp sprite Joanna Newson, she avoids the trappings of twee.
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Feb 5, 2013It’s a rollicking, exciting and inspiring tussle in a corner of Thao’s cheerful quilt of a discography.
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Feb 4, 2013We the Common's best songs are its most dynamic.
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Feb 4, 2013By seeking out a shared experience that everybody they’re reaching out to can hold on to, Thao & the Get Down Stay Down have created an album with We the Common that’s anything but common.
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Q MagazineMar 11, 2013It's the sort of manic outsider funk that succeeds or fails on the basis of how charming you find Nguyen's delivery. [Apr 2013, p.95]
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Feb 11, 2013It’s the witty and indirect way Thao and her band approaches the subjects in these songs that makes We The Common a minor delight.
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Feb 5, 2013Nguyen's rich, harmonic voice is up to the task, carrying with it the weight of more years than she's lived, and effortlessly mumbling and swinging around these compositions. [Jan-Feb 2013, p.89]
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Nov 19, 2013