{Thao Nguyen}
We've been crushing on Thao Nguyen for quite a long time. Her album Like the Linen made our Best Albums of 2005 list and we've played a couple of her songs on old Late Night Sounds podcasts, so I will refrain from singing praises this time around. Thao has a song featured on the up-coming Kill Rock Stars compilation The Sound The Hare Heard...
Press release from Kill Rock Stars:
The Sound The Hare Heard
Ever hear the Buddhist parable about the pensive hare, wise lion, and a fallen acorn declaring the end of the world? Kill Rock Stars owner Slim Moon sure has. Inspired by the dense double meaning of the narrative and the raw power of six strings and soul-sleeved singers, be’s merged the two with The Sound the Hare Heard compilation.
“When I’m sifting through demos or following up on tips that people give me, I always pay special attention to the singer-songwriter types,” says Moon. “I’ve always had a soft spot for them, from Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell to Elliott Smith and Joanna Newsom. This compilation is a distillation of the songwriters — well established, just starting out, or somewhere in between — who have turned me on in the new millennium.”
Following in the tradition of such taste-making Kill Rock Stars compilations as 2000’s Fields and Streams (featuring The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Neko Case, Deerhoof and more before they “broke”) and 2004’s Tracks and Fields (the only place to hear Xiu Xiu on the same disc as Jucifer, Young People and His Name Is Alive), The Sound the Hare Heard handpicks its selections from the Kill Rock Stars roster and beyond. So you’ll hear a KRS standby like Colin Meloy rub against a respected outsider like Sufjan Stevens, as well as such Class of 2006 hopefuls as Death Vessel, Wooden Wand and Devin Davis. A grand, gorgeous mixtape for endless nights and comfortably numb mornings.
Tracklist:
Devin Davis - When The Angels Lift Our Eyelids In The Morning
Laura Veirs - Cast A Hook In Me
Sufjan Stevens - Adlai Stevenson
Thao Nguyen - Feet Asleep
Wooden Wand - Bones For Doctor Swah
Death Vessel - Dancers All
Essie Jain - Why
Jeff Hanson - Daylight
Imaad Wasif - Other Voices
Great Lake Swimmers - Where In The World Are You
Owen McCarthy - Stargazers Are Blind
Simone White - The American War
Nedelle - Poor Little City Boy
Southerly - Dumbing Down
Colin Meloy - Lazy Little Ada
Corrina Repp - The Sound You Warn
The Moore Brothers - Waves Of Wonder
Aliccia BB - Best Friend Forever
Danielle Howle - Kill My Love For You
Lauren Hoffman - Another Song About The Darkness
Lovers - Honea
The compilation is set for a May 9th release, here's a taste:
Sufjan Stevens - "Adlai Stevenson" (via I Guess I'm Floating)
Thao Nguyen - "Feet Asleep"
From Thao Nguyen's album Like The Linen:
"We" (Hear more from Thao's MySpace)
Order Like The Linen
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