Thao and The Get Down Stay Down - A Man Alive Album Review
A Man Alive, the fourth studio album from Thao And The Get Down Stay Down sees the band take their sound in a much more experimental route, what could easily have sounded crass is instead perfectly pitched at a pop scene dying for new lifeblood.
Following the success of 2013's We The Common, which showed the world just how commanding a talent Thao Nguyen was she's gone away and made a record which is fiercely captivating. It's rich in everyway, at it's best it's a melting pot of carnivalesque beats and at its simplest it's a showcase of Nguyen's folky origins ('Give Me Peace').
Produced by Tune Yards Merryl Garbus, her stamp is all over this, it's well polished with every beat of every loop coming through with biting clarity. That's not to take anything from Nguyen who wrote all these tracks herself. Garbus helped to tease the experimental nature out of Nguyen and her band, who relish the opportunity to be so free.
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