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- Record Label: Kill Rock Stars
- Release Date: Oct 13, 2009
- Summary: The San Francisco-based trio releases its fourth studio album.
- Record Label: Kill Rock Stars
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Folk
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Know Better Learn Faster mostly sounds like a young artist coming into her own--in music and life and love.
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Know Better, Learn Faster is without a doubt one of the best indie folk-rock albums of the year.
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Their various styles are integrated and naturally came out of the way the Get Down Stay Down coalesced.
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Pictured on the album’s cover taking aim at a heart-shaped pinata, Thao once again sings in a way that conveys both breathless astonishment and world-weary wisdom.
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The production (a return engagement from Tucker Martine) remains relatively economical throughout, leaving plenty of room for Thao's distinctive warble/weep to unfold its tales of passion spent and soured.
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Know Better Learn Faster successfully builds off the trio's 2008 debut We Brave Bee Stings And All, with Nguyen's smoky alto and bluesy guitar remaining front and center.
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UncutThe scuzzy arrangements ate trickier and less cute, while the lyrics fester with hard experience. [Feb 2010, p.104]
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