Video: Thao Nguyen: "Geography" (Live in a marina)
We talked about a new song from Kill Rock Stars signee Thao Nguyen a month back. "Swimming Pools" was a fully produced track recorded with her band the Get Down Stay Down; this video shows Nguyen performing "Geography", also from We Brave Bee Stings and All, all by her lonesome in a marina. After inexplicably opening with a beatbox rendition of the rhythm from Gary Glitter's "Rock and Roll Part 2", she launches into the bluesy tune, sounding a bit like Rickie Lee Jones as she finds the right balance between breezy delicacy and soul-inflected grit.
[original track from We Brave Bee Stings and All; due 01/29/08 on Kill Rock Stars]