Thao And The Get Down Stay Down - Nobody Dies

1.    Who is this fine musician?

Thao and The Get Down Stay Down are an indie folk rock band from San Franciso by way of Church Falls, Virginia. Plying their trade since 2003 they have four long players in the bag. Nobody Dies (Dec’15) rattles and shakes off A Man Alive (March’16).
 

2. What’s the word?

Nobody Dies is a rollicking, rolling, indie rocker; forget the folk. Handclaps? Indeed. Curious vocal performance? Present and accounted for. Deeply personal lyrical content? You betcha. Hooks? More than a Chinese trawler in illegal waters. Personal favorite? The vocal and handclap breakdown.
 

3. Who do Thao and the far too long band name sound like?

Comparisons have been made to St. Vincent and tUnE-yArDs. Really people? At this rate we are a generation away from just grunting at each other.
 

4. What pearls of enlightenment have the princes of the press dropped for us minions to devour like manna from heaven?

“A lilting, gnarled, bass heavy track” – NPR.

“Guitars warp and fade in a lackadaisical jangle” – Consequence Of Sound.

“Infectious stomp-along” – All Music.

5. Which bands have shone the light on the path to musical enlightenment for Thao and The Get Down Stay Down?

Thao Nguyen is influenced by country music, Blues, Motown and Lucinda Williams.

6. Why should I give Nobody Dies a chance to impress?

Nobody Dies juxtaposes melancholy with bouncy, joyous, rock'n'roll and plumbs the depths of both.


7. Do Thao and The Get Down Stay Down have any more pearlers?

Nobody Dies is the top of the crop.


8. Any more drivel?

Merrill Garbus of Tune-yards produced the new album.

“You made a cruel kid, come look what you did”

The Futureheads were a post-punk band from Sunderland, England. From 2000-2013 they coughed up five long players. Decent Days and Nights was the second single from their debut album The Futureheads (2004) and is a song NME called, “multi-faceted brilliance.” It's a belter.

 

“If the least you can do is show some restraint,

Then the most you can do is get carried away”