Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - A Man Alive (Ribbon Music) 2016
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Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, the San Francisco-based band fronted by singer and songwriter Thao Nguyen, are back with the band’s fourth studio album, A Man Alive. Brutally honest and more personal than this is impossible, especially when this new album tackles Nguyen relationship with her father who left her when she was a young girl. Produced by Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards, A Man Alive is deeply compelling, direct and heavily introspective, way more instrumental, visceral and experimental than 2013’s previous effort, We The Common. From heartbreaking tracks like “Guts” and “Departure” to this kind of crazy and vibrant danceable “Meticulous Bird”, every track is like little pieces of this kind of diverse and intense musical puzzle. Impressive!